Re: Snapshot of Web Services Glossary

> What you are describing is the use of a synchronous protocol (HTTP) to
> synchronously transfer the state (you know it was received) for
asynchronous
> processing (later).
>
> I assume that later on you will receive a message indicating whether the
> request was processed. So at the higher-level (say choreography) the
> interaction involving request/response is synchronous, but each individual
> operation is consider asynchronous, yet using a synchronous protocol to
> ensure receipt.

I understand your explanation, but I don't think this advances the
effort, because the meaning of "synchronous protocol" is not clear,
at least not to me.

Walden