Re: REST, Conversations and Reliability

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:01:05AM -0700, Edwin Khodabakchian wrote:
> The difference is that in the second case the application is aware that
> it is communicating with a remote service and it decides to "queue" a
> message for that services. 

Edwin, have you read chapter 5 of the Waldo paper, 'The Myth of
"Quality of Service"'?  I highly recommend it.  It uses a queueing
example to talk about how reliability needs to be integrated in at the
application layer, not separated from it.

MB
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