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Subject: Re: [ws-rx] new issue: What is the purpose of the WSDL?
+1 -Anish -- Jonathan Marsh wrote: > *Title:* What is the purpose of the WSDL? > > > > *Issue:* The purpose of the WSDL is not terribly clear. I doubt one > would actually describe a Web service using this WSDL, as RM is > generally considered an infrastructure-level protocol and WSDL typically > describes an application-level message exchange. In addition, if > machine-processing of this WSDL is expected, not all message exchanges > are described – after a MakeConnection message comes _/in/_ to the > service, a CreateSequence message may come _/out/_, yet CreateSequence > is only described as an _/in/_ message in the WSDL. The limits of the > WSDL in describing the complete exchanges of messages should be noted. > > > > *Proposal:* fix this editorially by adding the following explanatory > text to “Appendix B. WSDL”: > > > > This WSDL describes the RM protocol from the point of view of an RM > Destination. In the case where an endpoint acts both as an RM > Destination and an RM Source, note that additional messages may be > present in exchanges with that endpoint. > > > > Also note that this WSDL is intended to describe the internal structure > of the RM protocol, and will not generally to appear in a description of > an RM-capable Web service. See RM-Policy [ref] for a higher-level > mechanism to indicate that RM is engaged. > > > > **Jonathan Marsh** - http://www.wso2.com - > http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com > > >
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