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

[Gil Tayar <Gil.Tayar@webcollage.com>]

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?