[dais-wg] A simple Data Access service

[Ian Foster]

Savas:

You're exaggerating again, so I can't resist commenting.

Nothing is being forced on people. The observation that motivates WSRF is 
that there are a small set of behaviors that occur very frequently (as you 
seem to admit in your examples), that if codified can be described once 
rather than again and again.

Of course this stuff isn't complicated: e.g., you can define messages to 
establish and extend lifetimes as well as anyone else. But why not use 
those defined in WS-ResourceLifetime, so you can just tell people that 
those are the messages and behaviors you are using, rather than having to 
explain how you've made up your own names for those, that are sort of the 
same as WS-ResourceLifetime, but different?

Ian.


At 01:09 PM 4/19/2005 +0100, Savas Parastatidis wrote:
>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.

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