Discussion: Sections 3.4, 3.5 & 3.6. Having 3 management operations in the BES specification until generic OGSA management structure defined?
The operations in 3.4 & 3.5 (Start & Stop AcceptingNewActivities) I see as being a service specific management function (i.e. they effectively alter the behavior of one specific operation within the service). The 'ShutdownContainer' operation is a concern. Firstly from a naming perspective as it applies to the BES not to the web service hosting environment. And even if the name was changed to imply that the service itself was to be shutdown... 1. This would be a 'generic' management action which should fall under the general OGSA management remit. 2. Also, this seems to be an operation on the hosting environment not the service. 1 & 2 are I suppose effectively the same but I suppose I'm not sure this operation fits here. Steven -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Steven Newhouse Tel:+44 (0)2380 598789 Deputy Director, Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) Suite 6005, Faraday Building (B21), Highfield Campus, Southampton University, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK