Re: Snapshot of Web Services Glossary

The "Free Online Dictionary of Computing" has the following:

synchronous:
<operating system, communications> 1. Two or more processes
that depend upon the occurrences of specific events such as
common timing signals.

2. Occurring at the same time or at the same rate or with a
regular or predictable time relationship or sequence.

In our case, a synchronous interaction between two or more parties
is one in which the specification of the elements of that interaction
includes references to common clocks or temporal dependencies.

Received on Friday, 21 February 2003 13:27:19 UTC