RE: Explicit & Implicit acknowledgements

[Nicholas Kassem <nick.kassem@eng.sun.com>]

Thank you for posting this. If this topic shows up early in your agenda I 
will call in before the POC conf. call on Thursday. I don't think we are 
far off. I would however prefer to promote a simpler, consistent 
programming model at the Business Process level making no assumptions about 
the environment within which the Business Process is running in.  It should 
be possible to develop a Business Application such that requests are issued 
over HTTP with responses arriving over say POP/IMAP. Alternatively requests 
may be issues over SMTP with responses arriving over HTTP. In fact the 
transport characteristics is a deployment time decision driven by the PA. 
IMHO, we have traditionally wired transport behavior into the application, 
in a messaging environment we have the luxury of avoiding this.

Regards,
Nick

At 10:58 PM 9/28/2000 -0500, Rik Drummond wrote:
>david, i think it would be good to discuss this on the conference call next
>week to make sure those who were not there really  understand it... i know
>you have described a real world problem.... but i am not sure yet of the
>solution.  lets get everyone up to speed.. take some time to discuss it next
>week.... best regards, rik
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Burdett, David [mailto:david.burdett@commerceone.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:02 PM
>To: ebXML Transport (E-mail)
>Subject: Explicit & Implicit acknowledgements
>
>
>Folks
>
>I attach a presentation that most of you in Dallas this week have seen all
>or part of. It describes how you can acknowledge receipt of messages
>"implicitly.
>
>I also think that, when using HTTP, we can always send back an explicit ack
>on the HTTP response and we don't need to do this with a separate HTTP post.
>
>
>So using the principle that we should not have two ways of doing something
>when one will do, I suggest that we adopt this approach unless someone can
>come up with reasons why it won't work.
>
>David
>  <<Alternative protocol bindings.ppt>>
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