Folks,
On 16/10/03 19:27, "Sedukhin, Igor S" <> wrote:
> As noted on the call my concern about collection is that ... <snip/> ...
>
> Therefore I propose this definition. "A collection is a set of references to
> the elements with operations defined for adding, removing and querieing the
> contents of the collection. In addition the number of items in a collection
> can be obtained. A manager could use or expose a collection of manageable
> resources. The intention is to be able to represent and operate a collection
> of Web services via Web services protocols."
You use the word "set" above. We went around the trees several times when
doing ServiceGroups in OGSI on whether it was a set or a bag. A ServiceGroup
is a bag. There were several cases where a service might be included several
time with different metadata being important for example. In manageability,
my intuition says it should be a bag, but I can't find a good use case.
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