Communication

Communication is a platform mechanism for exchanging information between distinct execution participants or boundaries according to an agreed protocol and data contract.

UML Messages and Communication Diagrams can represent communication, but this term does not mean a particular UML diagram.

CML can describe the semantic structures being exchanged. Mechanisms such as transport and retry are separated into the platform side.

Scala can implement communication processing, but Scala Types alone do not guarantee protocol compatibility.

The Schema, HTTP, and result representations in simplemodeling-lib can support contracts at Communication boundaries. A concrete Communication runtime is a separate realization responsibility.

Japanese videos introduce the term as 通信(communication).