LIAS Data Architecture Meeting 2005-06-23

• Discussed Pedigrees and Process tracking
  • Don't get too bogged down on Process tracking yet... K.I.S.S.
• Discussed technologies:
  • SOAP -- may be too bloated
  • XML/RPC -- doesn't give us much over slinging XML at a socket
  • Web Continuations -- Pat to read up on them a bit

-- PatrickStein - 23 Jun 2005

I started reading up on Web Continuations a bit. Obviously, I haven't read in much detail yet (having only had 1/2 an hour so far). But, it got me thinking about what kind of state I need to actually track from call to call. The only thing that I can think that I really need to track for either searching or indexing is the authentication info. It would be nice not to have to do public-key stuff every call.

In a User > WebServer > Database scenario, this means keeping authenticated sessions between the user and the webserver.

In a User > WebServer > DBServer > Database scenario (basically having an independent process that the handles the interactions with the DB), this means keeping an authenticated session between the user and the webserver and an authenticated session from the webserver to the dbserver.

-- PatrickStein - 23 Jun 2005