RE: Asynchronous calls

To be a little pedantic, what you will get is an HTTP 202   *OR*   a fault - you will never get both; you should get exactly one. The 202 is the response saying "got the message, working on it, I didn't see anything obviously wrong with it before I sent this 202 response" - at that point you know it has read and interpreted some of the headers at least.
 
Tony Rogers
CA, Inc
Senior Architect, Development
tony.rogers@ca.com

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From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org on behalf of David Illsley
Sent: Tue 10-Jul-07 5:57
To: GUILLON Benoit
Cc: public-ws-addressing@w3.org; public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous calls




Hi,
What you will get when using the WS-A implementations I'm aware of is an
HTTP 202 indicating that the message was successfully received, and if
there is a fault, the fault will be sent to the ReplyTo/FaultTo per WS-A
Core. Anything over and above that in the direction you suggest isn't in
any specification I'm aware of so you'd have to define that yourself and
make your infrastructure support it (which isn't something I'd advise).
David

David Illsley
Web Services Development
MP211, IBM Hursley Park, SO21 2JN
+44 (0)1962 815049 (Int. 245049)
david.illsley@uk.ibm.com



From:
"GUILLON Benoit" <guillon@sungard-finance.fr>
To:
<public-ws-addressing@w3.org>
Date:
07/09/2007 01:58 PM
Subject:
Asynchronous calls



Hello,

I?m working on publishing long operations via WebServices: client sends a
message via HTTP to my service which starts the long operation. Client
gets the result later in a JMS queue or its own endpoint gets called with
the response. To achieve this, I plan to use WS-Addressing for message
correlation and reply-to endpoint definition.

However, I want my service to return a first reply saying ?Ok I managed to
start the long operation (or not and why)? in the HTTP response of
client?s call whatever the ?reply-to? field was.

I was wondering if this use-case was still compliant with WS-Addressing or
if it was a bad use of ?reply-to?.

Best regards

Benoît Guillon * NTIC * SunGard * Asset Arena Investment Accounting * 7
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