Marc Hadley, a member of the Web
Services Addressing Working Group, poses the following question:
Do EPRs have a life cycle,
and if so, how is it managed Should we provide a mechanism to help
The notion of endpoint reference (EPR) life cycles (see WS-Addressing)
is an interesting concept. Would timeout/expiry values for EPRs be useful as a refactoring
of the WS-* specifications that employ them In a recent blog entry entitled, "WS-Lifecycle", Dave
Orchard poses this question while providing a background to time, lifecycle, and
garbage collection in distributed computing.