[wsrp-wsia] [I#175] Roles should be per-Entity and not per-Producer

Issue: 175
Status: Active
Topic: 
interface
Class: Technical
Raised by: Eilon Reshef
Title: Roles should 
be per-Entity and not per-Producer
Date Added: 10-Dec-2002
Document 
Section:   v0.85/4.1.7
Description:
RoleDescription[] - should 
it be per each Entity and not per Producer? The current model only supports 
roles per Producer which works when the Producer is a centralized portal 
environment, but makes it much harder to manage and deploy changes in less 
controlled environment. For example, this means that if a development 
environment allows portlet developers to define custom roles per portlet (e.g., 
if one Producer may span multiple web-apps in J2EE), then the Producer must 
continuously accumulate all roles from all its portlets to present a coherent 
role list. And, the Consumer needs to sample that list more often to ensure that 
there are no changes. Another example is how would an 
application-level-WSRP-proxy support multiple services with different 
roles?