[wsrp-interfaces][wsia][wsia-wsrp joint interfaces] Agenda for Tuesday 23 July

A 
fairly ambitious agenda for tomorrow:

 

1.  Based on our discussion from Thursdays WSRP 
Interfaces call, Mike sent out a couple of emails regarding levels of state, and 
most recently, session modeling.  I think it would be useful to spend time 
going over the major points to nail down session/state 
basics:

 

a.)  What are markup parameters?  Are they 
transient request state?  Expanded to encompass session state for 
special circumstances (below)?  

b.)  Should we model "stateless" producers as 
somehow putting the burden of managing session state on the Consumer, via the 
expanded notion of markup parameters?  What should "stateless" imply 
regarding Producer's expectations on Consumer?

c.)  Is there a need for a separate initSession 
call, to avoid session creation race conditions?  What about session 
timeout, and handling non-J2EE containers which may not be able to re-establish 
an expired session?

 

2.  Hopefully smaller-scale discussions 
on...

 

a.) Should userAgent, locale 
& deviceInfo be part of the user profile data or some other structure (now 
is in RequestContext)?

b.) Page 32 / line 3 of 0.22 draft ... Is SHOULD 
or MAY the right statement?

c.) Should modes and states be an int[] or a 
bitvector ... both have appeared in 
different versions of the spec ... which is preferred?

 

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Alan