Re: A reworking of the message oriented model

Francis,

There is difference between prescribed mesage path and actual message 
path (runtime), both may be of interest. Is this something that fits 
into the model ?

/anders

Francis McCabe wrote:

> This diagram represents an attempt to partially refactor the Message 
> Oriented Model.
>
> The essential difference here is to bring out that messages have 
> originators and ultimate recipients as well as senders and receivers; 
> and the structure of the message is closer to the SOAP model.
>
> It also brings out the role of the message transport a little more 
> clearly.
>
> Some notes:
>
> 1. Originator and ultimate recipient of a message are really 
> service-oriented concepts.
> 2. Correlation is a general concept, that applies elsewhere. The 
> general version of this is `counts-as' (as in this message counts as 
> the reply to your earlier message).
> 3. What is not captured here is the idea of a message processing 
> model. Is that necessary? It should be covered to some extent in the 
> written text
>
> Comments would be welcome
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