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  • 1.  RE: [wsia] RE: [wsrp] Sessions and Transient Entities

    Posted 06-18-2002 14:56
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    Subject: RE: [wsia] RE: [wsrp] Sessions and Transient Entities


    
    Of course the portlets need to be prepared. But the portlet would not know
    with what other portlet is should share the session. Only the consumer
    knows this.
    
    
    Best regards
    Carsten Leue
    
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    Dr. Carsten Leue
    Dept.8288, IBM Laboratory B�blingen , Germany
    Tel.: +49-7031-16-4603, Fax: +49-7031-16-4401
    
    
    
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    Can you please elaborate on this - what would be a working scenario where a
    Consumer decides to group portlets without the portlets pre-programmed to
    be shareable?
          -----Original Message-----
          From: Carsten Leue [mailto:CLEUE@de.ibm.com]
          Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:21 PM
          To: Eilon Reshef
          Cc: 'Michael Freedman'; wsia@lists.oasis-open.org;
          wsrp@lists.oasis-open.org
          Subject: Re: [wsia] RE: [wsrp] Sessions and Transient Entities
    
    
    
    
          Eilon -
    
    
          because the consumer may want to decide which portlets to group
          together in
          a session. The producer would not be able to do so.
    
    
    
    
    
          Best regards
          Carsten Leue
    
    
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          Dr. Carsten Leue
          Dept.8288, IBM Laboratory B�blingen , Germany
          Tel.: +49-7031-16-4603, Fax: +49-7031-16-4401
    
    
    
    
    
    
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          If a simple group-id within the portlet UI takes care of the issue
          (which I
          agree with), why bother to allow the Consumer to create and manage
          sessions
          explicitly (versus implicit creation by the Producer)?
    
    
           -----Original Message-----
          From: Michael Freedman [mailto:Michael.Freedman@oracle.com]
          Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:43 PM
          To: wsia@lists.oasis-open.org; wsrp@lists.oasis-open.org
          Subject: Re: [wsrp] Sessions and Transient Entities
    
    
                Eilon,
                  I think your suggestion intermixes 2 different concepts --
          that of
                session identity and that of instance/entity identity.  My
          scenario 1
                concerns itself with how an instance/entity id can be used to
          segment
                data within a session.  My scenario 2 concerns itself with how
                distinct sessions can be established/maintained.  I suggested
          we
                don't define a way for the producer to describe its grouping
          rules.
                Rather a consumer can choose to support grouping (via a
          mechanism its
                free to define) or leave it up to the consumer to handle
          internally
                (via perference/configuration data).  So in my scenario 2, a
          consumer
                isn't responsible for separating the portlets into different
                sessions.  It merely is allowed to do so.  Portlets must assume
          they
                aren't running in such environments -- rather they must assume
          they
                run in a shared session world -- hence they need an ID to do
          the
                proper namespacing.  As the consumer doesn't know this grouping
    
                (because it doesn't implement grouping) the producer must
          provide its
                own UI for getting these keys -- i.e. the producer must provide
          a
                configuration/personalization UI that allows a group key to be
                specified for each of its portlets -- it can then use this
          "internal"
                group id to key/separate data in the shared session.
    
    
    
    
    
                Just a long way of saying -- I don't buy your scenario 2.  If
          the
                consumer knows the grouping, I would rather the consumer
          maintain 2
                discrete sessions as this allows it to continue to pass the
          entity id
                so each entity can maintain entity specific data if necessary
          (i.e.
                portlet A, B, B' in the same session/group -- B and B' can keep
          their
                data separate).  If the consumer doesn't know the grouping then
          it
                controls things just like scenario 1.  The producer is free to
                define/manage finer granularity as described above.
                     -Mike-
    
    
    
    
    
                Eilon Reshef wrote:
                       Mike,Per your recent e-mails, I think that the approach
          makes
                      sense.The only thing that concerns me is that we have two
    
                      different mechanisms to handle what would seem to be a
          very
                      similar scenario.Scenario 1: If there are two occurrences
          of a
                      single portlet on a page, then as you described it the
          portlet
                      is responsible for segregating the occurrence-specific
                      information, using an additional key provided by the
                      portal.Scenario 2: If there are two occurrences of a pair
          of
                      portlets, then suddenly the portal is responsible for
                      segregating the two pairs by placing them in two separate
    
                      sessions.(All, of course, assuming that the portlets use
                      sessions)The idea of the Consumer creating and managing
          the
                      segregation keys has the scalability advantage that you
                      mentioned.Can't we use it to handle both
          scenarios?Namely:In
                      scenario 1, where there's portlets A1 and A2, then the
          portal
                      sends a key "1" when displaying A1 and a key "2" when
                      displaying A2. In scenario 2, when there's portlet pairs
          <A1,
                      B1> and <A2, B2>, then the portal sends a key "1" when
                      displaying A1 and B1 and the key "2" when displaying A2
          and
                      B2.This would allow the Producer to create and manage the
    
                      session id (and maybe even create them only when needed,
                      instead of explicitly creating them up-front as the
          current
                      draft suggests). The Consumer only has to take into
          account
                      that it may receive (and needs to re-send) a separate
          session
                      id for each one of the keys.Eilon
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    


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