Issue - 187 - Legality of Explicitly throwing or rethrowing Standard faults

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Issue 187: Legality of Explicitly 
throwing or rethrowing Standard faultsStatus: 
received
Date added: 20 Jan 2005
Categories: Fault 
handling
Date submitted: 19 January 2005
Submitter: Prasad Yendluri
Document: 
WSBPEL Working Draft, December 2004
Description: The specification 
needs to clearly identify any constraints on handling of BPEL defined standard 
faults (see Appendix-A) or clearly state if there are no constraints.
The 
standard-faults that BPEL specification defines in the "bpws" namespace are 
special kind of faults that are thrown by the BPEL implementations rather than 
by the BPEL application logic. The specification needs to address any 
constraints associated with these faults.
Specifically can these faults 
*ever* be "thrown" or "rethrown" (or catch and throw again) explicitly in the 
BPEL application logic, fault-handlers etc.? If they can be thrown are rethrown 
can arbitrary "data" be attached with the throw?
Section 13.4 (3rd para) of 
the WS-BPEL specification states:
"The core concepts and exexutable pattern 
extensions of WS-BPEL define several standard faults with their names *and 
data*".
However, the specification does not define anywhere in the main spec 
or the Appendix A any *data* (body) associated with any of the standrads faults 
defined by BPEL.
So, if no data is ever associated with the standard faults, 
then that should be stated.
Unfortunately there are no examples that show the 
use of (e.g. in ) the standard faults. I think it would be very useful to 
have one or two examples that show the use of standard faults (catch and throw / 
rethrow if applicable). 

Submitter's proposal: None so far.
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Changes: 20 Jan 2005 - new 
issue

 

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Tony                           

  
  

    
      

    
      
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