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Subject: SOAP wording AI proposal
>> AI: Hal and Maryann to uncover existing wording for
describing SOAP so
>> it can be put into Section 3.2 of the bindings
document.
Maryann, Hal and myself propose the following text for this AI.
I also plan to include the proposed text in the upcoming bindings document
draft. The second paragraph is derived/modified from the SOAP 1.2 Primer
(probably should include reference). Draft text:
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"SOAP is a lightweight protocol intended for exchanging
structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It uses XML
technologies to define an extensible messaging framework providing a message
construct that can be exchanged over a variety of underlying protocols. The
framework has been designed to be independent of any particular programming
model and other implementation specific semantics. Two major design goals for
SOAP are simplicity and extensibility <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-soap12-part1-20030624/>. SOAP
attempts to meet these goals by omitting, from the messaging framework, features
that are often found in distributed systems. Such features include but are not
limited to "reliability", "security", "correlation", "routing", and "Message
Exchange Patterns" (MEPs).
A SOAP message is fundamentally a one-way transmission between
SOAP nodes from a SOAP sender to a SOAP receiver, possibly routed through one or
more SOAP intermediaries. SOAP messages are expected to be combined by
applications to implement more complex interaction patterns ranging from
request/response to multiple, back-and-forth "conversational" exchanges. A SOAP
message is an XML schema definition and associated processing rules, defining a
SOAP Envelope, SOAP header block and SOAP body."
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regards, Frederick
Frederick
Hirsch
Nokia
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