Re: targetResource wording

+1, especially to the final point made.

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:23:44 -0700
Fred Carter <fred.carter@amberpoint.com> wrote:
> Suppose there are two interfaces, printing & printermgmt. Printing 
> contains the operation "print" which returns a job id.  printermgmt 
> contains, amongst others, the cancelJob operation.
> 
> If I print to some print endpiing with a targetResource and later
> decide to cancel it, I need to know which thing on which to perform
> the cancelJob operation. In  this case, the 'targetResource'
> identifies the printing subsystem.  Depending upon the enterprise's
> choices, this may be a server, a printer, a farm of printers in some
> room with a common manager or spooler, whatever -- we don't know.  We
> just know that two endpoints employing these interfaces refer to the
> same 'collected stuff' -- that identified by the 'targetResource'.
> 
> (Arguments about bad interface decisions are not terribly relevant. 
> There will always be cases where there are different interfaces.)
> 
> If, OTOH, one could put the 'printing' and 'printermgmt' interfaces
> into the same service, this wouldn't be a problem.  But it is in the
> current thinking.
> 
> IMHO:  This issue exists ONLY because of the "service contains a
> single interface" decision.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fred Carter / AmberPoint, Inc.
> 
> mailto:fred.carter@amberpoint.com
> tel:+1.510.433.6525 fax:+1.510.663.6301
> 


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Amelia A. Lewis
Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc.
alewis@tibco.com

Received on Friday, 20 June 2003 14:59:46 UTC