- From: Sai Surya Kiran Evani <evani@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
- Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:44:24 +0200
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Hi, Just curious if there would be anything defined regarding the queueing behaviour of a web service. I guess the analysis of the systems involved - the provider or the invoker would be different in the cases of unbounded queues and bounded queues.. Thanks, Kiran. Geoff Arnold wrote: > >> 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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