Re: Messaging Service Comment

[Gordon van Huizen <gvanhuiz@progress.com>]

mwsachs@us.ibm.com wrote:
> It's fine to say that the messaging service is
> agnostic to the transport protocol but in real life, the Messaging Service
> run-time must interact with the transport run-time. Design of the messaging
> service protocol must be with the understanding of what goes on in the most
> likely transports.
> 
> Since it is highly likely that an implementation will include both the
> messaging service and the transport function, it may be sufficient to
> express the interactions as a series of informative notes (or an
> informative appendix) rather than as a formal interface definition. The
> important point is that the assumptions have to be stated to ensure that
> the messaging service and transport function will work together correctly.


Amen!

Wait, that didn't sound very agnostic, did it? ;-)

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