Venue membership via soap?

[Robert Olson]

I think it's a great idea. If there's concern over the GSI connection 
overhead, we can do straight SSL with connection tokens.

--bob

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Thomas D. Uram wrote:

> 
> Considering the difficulties we've had with the event service, and the 
> concerns people have about losing their membership in a venue (and 
> having their media tools shutdown), I was wondering if we should move 
> membership management (i.e. heartbeats) over to the SOAP realm.  
> Especially considering that the SOAP server is now multithreaded, this 
> could be more reliable than the event channel, and would leave the event 
> channel strictly to managing coherence.
> 
> This would simplify some services, too.  If they're not concerned with 
> coherence, they don't need an event client.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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