Issue - 83 - Garbage Collecting Compensation Handlers

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Issue - 83 - Garbage Collecting Compensation Handlers
Status: open

Date added: 3 Nov 2003

Submitter: Yaron Goland

Date submitted: 31 October 2003

Document: Main Doc

Description: BPEL processes can potentially be very long lived and
after a certain point compensation handlers persisted earlier in
the process's lifetime may no longer be needed. We need a way to
let the BPEL engine know that it can garbage collect unneeded
compensation handlers. We can do this implicitly through hacky
tricks like defining empty compensation handlers or we can introduce
a more explicit way to identify a scope whose compensation handlers
can be safely garbage collected. 

Links: Yaron Goland, 30 Oct 2003     
Assaf Arkin, 31 Oct 2003     
Frank Leymann, 31 Oct 2003

Changes: 3 Nov 2003 - new issue

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