RE: should web services be strictly stateless accessible thru bro wser and RDFying HTML etc...

Mark - 

Could you possibly clarify this by giving an example of a stateful
interaction which you think should not be allowed?  Are you saying that the
examples from Sateesh and Jeff are all statefull services, not interactions,
and are OK?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:29 PM
To: Narahari, Sateesh
Cc: 'Mark Baker'; Christopher Ferris; www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: Re: should web services be strictly stateless accessible thru bro
wser and RDFying HTML etc...


Sateesh,

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:52:13PM -0600, Narahari, Sateesh wrote:
> So, a web service named setQuoteList, followed by retrieveQuoteUpdate 
> is not possible as per new architecture, if the web service remembers 
> the list of ticker symbol between these two calls.

Services can be stateful, but the interactions with them should not. You're
talking about the former, and I (and I believe the reqts doc) are talking
about the latter.  They are *very* different things.

MB
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