Timer and Time-Based Events

Tim Bass
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:11:58 +0000
Opher asks in his blog, Is there a non-event event ? on absence as a pattern.
All �non-event� examples that theevent processingcommunity has offered, to date, have been based on the premise that an event is created when something does not happen based on time, schedule or a timer - and many seem to want to refer to this as a�non event.�
Opher is now calling this situation an �absent event.�
In my opinion, the correct term should be a �time-based event� because the event is triggered by a timer or similar time-based object; the
term �non-event� should be dropped from the event processing glossary.

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