[wsrp-wsia] customization/properties call minutes for Sep 18

["Timothy N. Jones" <tim@crossweave.com>]

Please send me any corrections.

Regards,
Tim

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Participants

Timothy N. Jones, CrossWeave
Ravi Konuru, IBM
Andre Kramer, Citrix
Bruce Lucas, IBM
Yossi Tamari, SAP Portals
Rich Thompson, IBM
Charles Wiecha, IBM

1. Review of face-to-face discussions around properties for 1.0 spec

entity-level properties only

don't address scoping

visible to all sessions

single model at a time

extensible framework for post-1.0 enhancements

description
	schema
	bind
		use property attribute rather than ref (xpath)
		restrict to flat property namespace

getter/setter
	takes/returns
	<propertylist>
		<property name="name">value</property>


2. Remaining issues 

what happens to currently active sessions when entity property modified?

should methods return changed properties (side-effects), or should this be 
addressed by a proper eventing mechanism?

passing user context to methods means that each user potentially sees different 
property model

serialization

- use <array> wrapper around property lists rather than <propertylist> for 
compatibility, but this requires 

elements of same type -- limit for extensibility?

- Axis implementation default serializer doesn't deal well with attributes: 
must use subelements

- does getter take array of properties or array of names -- there's a standard 
syntax for the latter (string array)

Next call 

Wed, Sep 25
9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 6:00pm CET
1-877-299-7551, passcode 2696#