Re: [wsrp-interfaces] Should portlets/producers indicate that theypush out persistent state?

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

Consumers will be breaking the spec (since consumers are required to 
supply state) if they don't resend the state. On the producer's side, 
graceful degradation may be possible, provided the producer maintains 
some amount of persistent state (e.g. which cloned handle maps which POP 
handle). But I suspect graceful degradation would be hard to 
implement/support.

Subbu


Andre Kramer wrote:
> There is also the question of graceful degradation: if the consumer does
> not return state pushed to it, does the producer/portlet still offer a
> minimal service? If this is generally desirable then maybe the extra
> metadata is needed less?
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Jacob [mailto:richard.jacob@de.ibm.com] 
> Sent: 12 January 2006 10:54
> To: wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [wsrp-interfaces] Should portlets/producers indicate that they
> push out persistent state?
> 
> I have a question regarding persistent state pushing to the Consumer.
> This can either be the state in the RegistrationContext or in the
> PortletContext.
> Currently the Producer can push its state whenever it likes to, and the
> Consumer requires to handle it accordingly (return it back, persist it).
> 
> Shouldn't we have metadate that indicates the Producer/Portlets
> preference
> to push out state?
> In that case the Consumer can choose to not use such a portlet.
> I see two use cases for it:
> 1.) the Consumer can't/doesn't want to persist the data be it for
> technical/resource reasons or legal/privacy reasons
> 2.) the Consumer "shares" the handles with another Consumer/Machine. We
> discussed such scenarios when we discussed import/export.
> From the Producer's perspective this is still the same Consumer (unless
> some security mechanism says otherwise), so protocol-wise this is
> perfectly
> legal.
> However if the Producer chooses to push out persistent state, such
> scenarios won't work unless the different "Consumers" sync themselves in
> some manner.
> 
> So what I'm asking for is basically two things:
> 1.) add metadata to the ServiceDesc saying that the registrationContext
> might contain state
> 2.) add metadata to the PortletDesc saying that the portlet intends to
> push
> out state in the PortletContext
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards,
> 
>         Richard Jacob
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