- From: Martin Chapman <martin.chapman@oracle.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:35:07 -0800
- To: "'David Booth'" <dbooth@w3.org>, "'Hugo Haas'" <hugo@w3.org>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
hmmm don't like the defn of synchronous: >10. synchronous >[[ >Property of an interaction whose results are directly following the >interaction. >]] >I suggest adding: >[[ >An interaction between an initiator and a respondent is >synchronous if the >initiator blocks some further processing while it waits for a >corresponding >action, response or acknowledgement from the respondent. >]] who/what is doing the blocking? This makes no senese in a context where we don't talk about programming languages, middleware, OSs etc. Properties of synchronous communications we can convey inthis space are direct communication (i.e. not through store and forward) and the fact that the reply (if any) comes back on the same communication channel as the request. Martin.
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