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

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

Alejandro,

Just curious - how this scenario different from some RPC service 
changing its interface or changing its behavior without letting its 
clients know?

Subbu

Alejandro Abdelnur wrote:
> 
> How does a consumer detect that the descriptor of a service or a portlet 
> has changed?
> 
> As the spec is today, it seems that consumer should keep a copy and do a 
> comparison with the producer descriptor to find out.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Alejandro
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