RE: [ws-rx] i061 proposal / directions

[Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>]

Premature optimization strikes again!

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
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"Gilbert Pilz" <Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com>
wrote on 01/24/2006 11:26:20 PM:

> Rich,
> 
> I don't think Lei was saying that *every* SOAP intermediary needs
to
> have knowledge of the WSDL of the ultimate destination, just that
some
> nodes may and that these nodes may elect to return a 202 before they
> have any knowledge of the results of subsequent downstream processing
> (obviously they would only elect to do this in the case of one-way
> operations).
> 
> - g
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:01 PM
> > To: Lei Jin
> > Cc: Doug Davis; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: RE: [ws-rx] i061 proposal / directions
> > 
> > "Lei Jin" <ljin@bea.com> wrote on 01/24/2006
08:39:35 PM:
> > 
> > > For example, in an ESB implementation, an intermediary can
hold a 
> > > bunch of WSDLs for a number of backend services that it
routes 
> > > messages to.
> > 
> > I think it would be a real bad idea to make WSDL a 
> > requirement.  You really don't want to require every 
> > intermediary to have prior knowledge of all WSDL files for 
> > every message that it might ever see.  It'd be hard to call
> > that "loosely coupled."
> > 
> >         /r$
> > 
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> > IBM Application Integration Middleware
> > 
> > 
> >