RE: Minority objection to requiring unique GEDs or required feature to distinguish operations from paul.downey@bt.com on 2004-08-13 (www-ws-desc@w3.org from August 2004)

From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:01:56 +0100
To: <distobj@acm.org>
Cc: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <2B7789AAED12954AAD214AEAC13ACCEF2709DB2E@i2km02-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net>

Mark wrote:
>> it's not ambiguous if the client also knows i've paid my bill ..

> Well, that's debateable I suppose, but it also seems a pretty far
> fetched scenario to me since it would require that the client know about
> the implementation details of the service.  I thought Web services were
> supposed to be *loosely* coupled?! 8-O

well arguably this is so loosely coupled it's broken :^)
 
FWIW i don't like this kind of policy or out-of-band based dispatching 
because it requires a coordination mechanism to avoid a race-condition.
 
Paul

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