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On 6 April 2014 12:02, Dushan Abeyruwan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've been discussing the ESB semantics with the cloud tooling team and we
>> had a very interesting thought process yesterday.
>>
>> The first starting point is that I think we can simplify away from the
>> in/out/fault sequence model.
>>
>> The new call and respond mediators mean that any API or Proxy can be
>> defined by a single sequence that calls other sequences and then moves on,
>> and finally responds (or not).
>>
>> This model (which has been discussed before) makes service chaining much
>> simpler.
>>
>
>   Yes, IMO this will simplify service chaining, and it was well discussed
> during the initial architectural discussion when connector framework was
> designing.
>
>>
>> Having described this model we then started describing the rest of the
>> semantics to the tools guys and Tyler made a very interesting pair of
>> observations.
>> The first observation was why separate sequence and template. A template
>> is just a sequence with parameters, and a sequence is just a template with
>> zero parameters. (I'm ignoring endpoint templates etc for the moment, but
>> maybe the same applies to them?)
>>
>
>    Yes, template is a sort of a sequence,but idea is template it self is a
> kind of function IMO, a  user can utilize them as skeleton and also
> template it self has a functional scope, so it brings cleaner approach and
> improve the re-usability, for the same reason we need a separation from
> sequences from re-usable functions then, that's how templates came in to
> the picture.
>

Isn't a sequence also a function just with no parameters?


>
> The second was that the proxy/api/tasks are all ways of kicking off a
>> sequence. Of course if you have multiple sequences/targets/etc in a proxy,
>> then its not like a task. But if you have a single sequence, with the
>> target service(s) as a parameter(s) then it is very similar to a task. So
>> his suggestion is that we create a meta concept of
>> "orchestrators"/"actuators"/"activators". We didn't decide on a name for
>> these but I personally like activators.
>>
>
>
>
>> In other words there are basically just two types of things: sequences
>> (which do stuff) and activators (which activate sequences).
>>
>
>     Would like a more detail discussion on this.
>
>>
>> Paul
>>
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