RE: Proposal for Bug 3111 - Recursive performs

Gary,

Agree on removing the restriction.
Side effects can be noted in the text
abbie

-----Original Message-----
From: public-ws-chor-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-chor-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gary Brown
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 4:31 AM
To: Monica J. Martin
Cc: 'WS-Choreography List'
Subject: Re: Proposal for Bug 3111 - Recursive performs


The only side effect from enabling recursion is the usual one - if there
is no way to break out of it, then at some point the service will fail
with a stack overflow.

However, although the consequences may not be as drastic, a similar
problem may occur when using repetition, if the conditions are not
correctly specified, then the service may never break out of the
repetition.

Regards
Gary


Monica J. Martin wrote:
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>> brown: Although repetition can be used in some cases to simulate 
>> recursion, this is not always the case, and it makes the choreography

>> complicated. So would suggest removing this restriction to enable 
>> recursive interaction patterns to be specified.
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>>      6.3 Composing Choreographies
>> Second set of bullet points, remove
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>> "There MUST NOT be a cyclic dependency on the choreographies 
>> performed. For example, choreography "C1" is performing choreography 
>> "C2" which is performing choreography "C1" again is disallowed"
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> mm1:  What side effects could we potentially see if we lift this 
> restriction? (race conditions for example) Thanks.
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Received on Friday, 21 July 2006 08:35:19 UTC