Re: [wsrp] service & portlet descriptor changes,how does a consumer know?

[Alejandro Abdelnur <Alejandro.Abdelnur@Sun.COM>]

I've asked because it seems broken to me. I want to know what other folks think on this and how they plan to solve it. Please check my response to Subu on this thread.

Alejandro

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 08:59  AM, Rich Thompson wrote:

> I think it is really important that we be extremely careful about additional functionality at this point is producing v1. I prefer restricting ourselves to editorial changes and fixes dealing with things that are demonstrated to be broken.
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> Rich Thompson
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> How does a consumer detect that the descriptor of a service or a
> portlet has changed?
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> As the spec is today, it seems that consumer should keep a copy and do
> a comparison with the producer descriptor to find out.
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> Wouldn't make the life of consumers easier if we have a sequence number
> in the descriptor? This would allow consumers to check and quickly
> decide if it has to update things.
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> Alejandro
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