[wsrp-interfaces][wsia][wsia-wsrp joint interfaces] Agenda for Tuesday 30 July

Over 
the last week, these are the main open questions and consensus 
items as I seen them.  I'd like to propose we work through as 
much of this as we can, and then roll the remainder (as well as any new 
questions) into the agenda for Thursday's call.  Mike, what do you 
think?

 

 

1.  Generic vs. specific release mechanism?  
Discussion favors generic.

 

2.  HTTP cookies in the protocol?  Emerging 
consensus against.  But discussion does favor enforcing request consistency 
across the protocol, so how does this work in a load-balanced environment?  
I think it's an implementation detail, but an important one that should be 
demonstrated asap in our proof-of-concept.

 

3.  New name for markupParameters:  
navigationState?

 

4.  We seem to be arriving at the following 
consensus:  Producer always manages session state, passing a handle to the 
session to the Consumer to be used in subsequent requests.  A Consumer MAY 
explicitly request the creation of a session, especially if it knows it's going 
to multiplex requests to this service on behalf of many 
clients.

 

5.  For request lifecycle, Mike's proposal is as 
follows:  performAction redirects to the same portlet page and passes 
changed state as markupParams in the response.  On subsequent call to 
getMarkup, Consumer must embed the markupParams as the new navigational 
parameters for the request, so the portlet renders the correct (in sync with 
the most recent performAction) markup.

 

As a 
side-effect, this would require that performAction is always a blocking 
call.

 

There 
hasn't been much discussion on this since, what do people 
think?

 

6.  How should we handle large SOAP 
attachments?  Compabitibility with .NET?  

 

7.  Factoring discussion.  This 
seems rather abstract, I think it needs to boil down to specifics in order 
to be useful to spec writers now.  Mike put up some proposals regarding the 
proper axes for factoring, as well as handling extensibility.  I tend to 
agree with his assessment.  Other proposals?

 

  
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