Cliff:
The syncReplyMode value of "mshSignalsOnly" was agreed by the team during
the conference call of 10/22/2001. See
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-msg/200110/msg00174.html.
The sentence on lines 1632-1634 may cause some confusion:
"If the syncReplyMode is not none, a SyncReply element MUST be present and
the MSH must return any response from the application or business process in
the payload of the synchronous reply message, as appropriate."
If syncReplyMode is mshSignalsOnly, response from the application or
business process would not be contained in the synchronous reply message,
only the MSH level Acknowledgment would be returned synchronously; business
signals and response have to be returned asynchronously.
I agree with Ralph that this is a reasonable behaviour that should be
configurable. We may need to rephrase the sentence on lines 1632-1634 to
allow this to happen.
-Arvola