Redirect from handleEvents

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

To take yesterday's discussion forward, I would like to summarize the 
current arguments.

Problem: handleEvents does not allow Producers to request for a redirect.

Argument 1: To keep the programming model simple, allow Producers to 
return a redirectURL, and clarify that Consumers are NOT REQUIRED to 
honor such a redirect.

Argument 2: Since some/most Consumers may not honor a redirect due to 
the possibility of parallel event processing, why specify something that 
may not work always.

I would like to ask the following questions for discussion next week.

a. How frequently do developers rely on redirect?

b. How would you see redirectURL getting exposed in the portlet 
programming model, for example in the Java Portlet API.

Regards,
Subbu