RE: Coordinated Choreographies Proposal 4 - Finalize Activity

For these terminology issues we should spend at most 5 mins. If we
cannot get agreement in that time, we should list as an issue at the
back of the last call document.
 
Cheers,
   Martin.

-----Original Message-----
From: public-ws-chor-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-chor-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Greg Ritzinger
Sent: 04 November 2004 20:04
To: public-ws-chor@w3.org
Subject: Re: Coordinated Choreographies Proposal 4 - Finalize Activity



>Related note: After studying the Choreology proposals and looking into
the
>exception handling and finalizer mechanisms in more detail recently, I
think
>the naming of the 'finalizer' leads to confusion in relationship to the
>commonly understood semantics of a Java 'finally' block in relation to
java
>exception handling (i.e. the closeness of the terms tends to implies
that
>the work inside the finalizer block will be performed regardless of
whether
>the choreo completes normally or with an exception). Possibly it should
be
>renamed 'compensation'? 
 
+1 
Being a Java programmer, I agree that the CDL semantics here may be
misunderstood, and that "compensation" would be a better term to use.


Greg