- From: Geoff Arnold <Geoff.Arnold@Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:03:07 -0400
- To: Mario Jeckle <mario@jeckle.de>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Bottom line: From my point of view async/sync is a question of blocking > or not, and completely separated from the underlying protocol. It just > has to provide sufficient ways to handle the message exchange in the > way > desired by the application. > If it were the case that sync/async were merely a question of blocking or non-blocking, WSA (and SOAP, and.....) would have nothing to say on the subject, since our specifications are silent on the question of implementation. However there is an alternative viewpoint (that sync/async is a property of message exchange patterns), and this has nothing whatsoever to do with implementation, blocking, threading and so forth. Geoff
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