- From: Savas Parastatidis <Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:08:34 +0100
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "marco" <marco.adragna@kellogg.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: <www-ws@w3.org>, <umit.yalcinalp@oracle.com>, "Jim Webber" <jim.webber@arjuna.com>, "Steve Graham" <sggraham@us.ibm.com>, "Krishna Sankar" <ksankar@cisco.com>
Mark, > > b) is less obvious, but most Web services interfaces I've seen are > stateful. I believe this is attributable to the simple fact that it > takes effort to design stateless interfaces, whereas stateful interfaces > are the default. > I would argue that SOA says nothing about the statefulness of the services exposed through an interface. I agree that most of the Web services have to maintain some state behind the scenes in order to be of any use but the semantics of SOA do not mandate that (at least that's my understanding). .savas.
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