RE: [wsia][wsrp-interfaces] Specific or general destroy mechanism(s)

Agreed.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Rex Brooks 
	Sent: Mon 7/22/2002 8:41 AM 
	To: Rich Thompson; ;
 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [wsia][wsrp-interfaces] Specific or general destroy
mechanism(s)
	
	

	I prefer the generic for v.1.
	
	Rex
	
	At 10:13 AM -0400 7/22/02, Rich Thompson wrote:
	>The current draft spec has a generic release mechanism
(releaseHandles()).
	>At times more specific mechanisms have been mentioned
(deregisterConsumer()
	>& destroyEntities()).
	>Advantages/disadvantages I see for the generic mechanism are:
	>
	>Advantages:
	>   - Single operation in the interface
	>   - Extensible ... can easily deal with new handle types as
they are added
	>to the spec.
	>   -
	>Disadvantages:
	>   - Implies an inheritance relationship between handles. This
isn't bad,
	>but isn't required for specific mechanisms.
	>   - Type checking moved to the application level (this depends
on how we
	>specify the serialization of the handles).
	>   - Harder to explain as the operation is more abstract and
therefore
	>dependent on what is concretely passed.
	>   -
	>
	>Comments / thoughts / preferences?
	>
	>
	>
	
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