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Rich,
Wouldn't you tend to think that "ID" hints towards persistence and
"Handle" hints towards transience and not vice-versa?
Eilon
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From: Rich Thompson
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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:26
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Subject: Re: [wsrp][wsia][wsrp-wsia joint
interfaces][Draft Spec 0.43] Terminology
Presuming the 2nd case to get dropped relative to the previous
set of
emails, I would propose this section call out
how we will refer to these
things throughout the
remainder of the document/API. In particular, I would
suggest:
Session
Information - This is carried opaquely in the interface as a
"sessionID".
=> goes away
Persistent Information - This is carried
opaquely in the interface as
a "handle".
Rather than "Manifestation", I would propose using "Entity" to
describe the
thing from which markup may be requested.
I think it has the right level of
opacity (Consumer
has no idea what kind of entity it is) while carrying
appropriate semantics (a thing that may be interacted with). Using
these
terms, there was also an open question at the
end of our last call related
to whether there were
both persistent and transient entities ...
If we are going to support explicit lifecycle for both of
these, I would
propose:
handle createEntity(handle,
propertyValues)
sessionID
createSession(handle, propertyValues)
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