Yaron Goland wrote:
>I think an editorial change that describes 'createInstance' as a marker of a
>start activity, explains that it is redundant and then describes why it is
>there anyway should do nicely. Can we add that to the list you are
>maintaining of things for the editors to do?
>
Does this really answer the original question you posed? Is the sample
process fragment you supplied considered illegal?
I can easily imagine someone trying to exploit such a "feature" if it
was not explicitly banned. Borrowing from your example:
<process>
...
<flow>
<receive partnerLink="A" createInstance="yes".../>
<receive partnerLink="B" createInstance="no".../>
</flow>
</process>
This could be used by partner B as a kind of polling mechanism to see if
partner A has done his thing yet. Kind of an event handler for process
instances that don't exist. Useful for non-deterministic (parallel)
sections of a choreography.
Do we wish to support this usage, or ban it? I think we need some
explicit wording one way or the other.
-Ron
