He informed me that a new public review draft of the BJI spec is now available. Something to think about. Around 4am I made 3 attempts to go to bed but the constant stream of slightly intoxicated and confused geeks in the Caesar's lobby was too entertaining to pass on.
However, when it comes to building distributed systems, the call stack mentality haunts us and makes us not realize the real structure of the system: sending and receiving messages. Therefore, each component participating in remote communications needs to have sender and receiver modules that can turn objects into data streams and vice versa.
It is hard to define the optimum architectural style for a given category of applications. In the US, most Starbucks use an explicit correlation identifier by writing your name on the cup and calling it out when the drink is complete. If the background task is completed, the foreground task uses the result, otherwise it just moves on. Unfortunately, there is much less going on in the open source world for