- From: S. Mike Dierken <mdierken@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:56:23 -0800
- To: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Assaf Arkin" <arkin@intalio.com> > From what I know if an operation is not idempotent than nothing can make it > idempotent. Perhaps a new idempotent operation can be constructed that uses the non-idempotent operation. > However, you can allow an invocation to be idempotent by > allowing multiple instances of the same invocation and detecting and > eliminating duplicates. The operation is still not idempotent (it has not > changed) but the interface allows idempotent invocation. This is true. It also has the characteristic of reflecting the original operation's non-idempotency - no new semantics.
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