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Subject: Re: [business-transaction] SOAP Bindings Stuff
I agree it's an important discussion, and more important than any arbitrary timetable, because it affects base-level interoperability. "WEBBER,JIM (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)" wrote: > Alastair: > > I know, given the current climate of wanting to get the spec finished ASAP, > that these comments won't be all that welcome, but I've been thinking about > the interfaces to a BTP service again, in the context of "rich" RPC versus > the "doWork" style. > > I think we might have been slightly narrow in our view of the problem as far > as thinking about hiding all of the detail behind some standard API goes. > Almost certainly we will be able to wrap all of the client-application side > complexity behind some standard API on the Java side of things (e.g. via > whatever comes from the JAXTX effort). > > However, I think we have not done our best to think outside of the Java > platform because I suspect we are all predominantaly Java advocates. In say > .Net world, the chances are that we won't have a standard API for > interacting with BTP services (i.e. transaction managers) and so people will > be forced to cobble their own proxies together from the descriptions offered > by those services. Now, of those services offer only a "doWork" method, it > is a difficult task to craft one's own proxy, whereas if the BTP service > offers a richer description and set of SOAP endpoints then the process of > talking to that service is significantly simplified. > > As far as the whiteboard session/messaging SC meeting goes, I think it would > be a good idea. As far as the SOAP bindings go, perhaps we should think > about having two sets of bindings, one for SOAP Messages, and one for SOAP > RPC. Then vendors would have the choice of which of those bindings they want > to implement. > > Jim > -- > Dr. James Webber > Hewlett-Packard Arjuna Lab > http://www.arjuna.com >
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