Just to clarify, I find the sentence "Portlets do not store these items
..." a bit unclear. Are we saying that "portlets don't generally store
these parameters ...", or are we saying that "we don't recommend that
portlets store ...".?
I suggest that we tigheten the language either with a conformance statement
"Portlets MAY NOT ..."
or a with a guideline
"We recommend that Portlet developers do not store ... for such and such
reasons."
Regards,
Subbu
Rich Thompson wrote:
>
> Subbu raised a question about changing "Portlets do not store these
> items in any portion of their state as the Consumer supplies the items
> on each invocation. In the absence of a Consumer supplied value for a
> public parameter the Portlet listed in its portletDescription, the
> Portlet SHOULD use a default value" to say Portlets either SHOULD NOT or
> MAY NOT store these items ...
>
> I considered this when adding this text, but decided against it as the
> one reasonable use case I could imagine for a Portlet storing the
> current public parameters was to use them as the default values should
> the parameter not be supplied on subsequent invocations. Do people think
> we should leave this as-is or make it a conformance statement?
>
> Rich
