- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:12:53 -0500
- To: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:33:37AM +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > Can you explain what the difference between that and Savas' model is > please? Please use something non-committal like "foo" for <operation> > so that we can talk rationally without having mental connotations > on what these words mean. Alright, but I'm getting really abstract here ... Consider the data "12345", suitably SOAP-ized. If that is sent to a service, and we get a successful response back, what are the possible interpretations of that success? One is simply that the data was "processed". Behind the scenes, perhaps it was stored in a file, added to another number, subtracted from some other, etc... But that's *totally invisible* to the sender; to it, "success" just means "processed". A different interpretation of "success" could be that the recipient interpreted some symbol in the data - the "1" perhaps - to be a specific request that the opaque part of the data - "2345" - be, say, spit out on a printer. Any better? Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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