[dais-wg] A simple Data Access service

[Savas Parastatidis]

> 
> I'm bemused by discussions of "lifetime management" that are reducing
> the issue to "delete" messages.  What about the soft-state
> functionality?
> 

What do you mean by "soft-state"? Do you mean timeouts and renew
messages?

The 'delete' message was just an example of how simple it is to do this
in an application domain specific manner. If functionality related to
'timeout' and 'renew lifetime' is necessary that can too be easily
incorporated. The WS-GAF registry we built more than a year ago had the
timeout functionality. The SkyServer also uses timeouts. There is
absolutely no magic at all and no difficulty in the implementation (only
few lines of code).

I am surprised that the soft-state management supporters make such a big
deal of such functionality to a point where an entire layer for all Web
Services is introduced and forced on everyone.

Regards,
.savas.