Re: SOAP actor model

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:39:03PM -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
> 
> I spoke to Henrik today, and he thinks it is better to overload the
> block tag.  Some blocks would be purely declarative -- this is a vcard,
> for example.  Other (actionable) blocks would have more
> processing-oriented tags that the processor would bind to a handler.
> These tags would either surround a declarative block, or possibly
> point to a declarative block, particularly if the block needed to be
> processed in multiple ways.
> 
> I'd be willing to go this route instead of "overloading the actor",
> although I actually don't view it as overloading.  My point was that
> the actor would be a designation of the "the kind of processor
> that should handle this block" by either having a binding/handler
> in the processor's environment or not.  Currently, the actor is somewhat
> underutilized -- with only special URI's signifying the next processor
> and the last processor.

I agree. Hopefully, we'll (start to) address this in due time.


Cheers,

-- 
Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA USA)

Received on Monday, 19 March 2001 20:24:18 UTC