- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:11:05 -0500
- To: "Liu, Kevin" <kevin.liu@sap.com>
- CC: "'www-ws-desc@w3.org'" <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
"Liu, Kevin" wrote: > > Somebody needs to convince me that passing object by references really makes > sense in the web services case: > 1. Does it make sense to pass by references if the services is stateless? Is > it a good idea to keep a web services stateful? How could a web service be entirely stateless? If I submit a purchase order and want to check up on its status a week later, doesn't that require state? How do I even tell the company what customer I am so they can check my payment history? > 2. What's the benefit of passing by references vs. passing by value across > Internet ? It's simply the case that almost all serious business problems involve references to things that have already gone before. Those are references. > 3. As for WSDL, it already has some construct for expressing in/out > parameters using ParameterOrder attribute of Operation - any needs to go > further? That's an unrelated feature. Paul Prescod
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