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Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] Action item: Note about TextMessage from SOAP/JMSworking group


Hi Anish,

Anish Karmarkar wrote:
> Eric Johnson wrote:
>> Hi Anish,
>>
>> Anish Karmarkar wrote:
>>>>       Since the message is already in text format the "encoding"
>>>>       attribute in the XML header must be ignored.
>>> Perhaps not the best place to discuss this, but why is the encoding
>>> attribute in the XML preamble ignored?
>> Ah, perhaps we really do need similar text in our JMS binding
>> specification, then?  If this isn't immediately obvious, then perhaps it
>> deserves restating.  I'll raise an issue to that effect.
>>
>> The "encoding" header in the XML stream is there to tell you how to
>> interpret a stream of *bytes*.  By the time you're looking at a JMS
>> TextMessage, you're already looking at *characters*.
>>
>
> This may be simple case of misunderstanding (on my part).
Yes, definitely an misunderstanding on your part - at least I'm reading
it that way.
>
> I'm assuming that we are talking about the xml preamble attribute
> 'encoding'. e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Yes, perhaps useful to others to clarify that!
>
> Since this is SOAP over JMS, the web services binding layer would use
> the JMS apis to send/receive the SOAP infoset/xml. The SOAP
> infoset/xml is transported over JMS as a text message.
Well, that's just the problem.  The SOAP/JMS binding specification lets
you choose to use either TextMessage or BytesMessage - the same as we've
chosen to do with the jms binding specification.  So when you say "the
SOAP infoset/xml is transported over JMS as a text message", that isn't
true - it is transported either as bytes or characters depending on your
choice of message type.

> The web services layer either uses the SOAP infoset (which is abstract
> and encoding attribute is not present) or deals with the serialized
> XML. The encoding attribute comes into play only when dealing with
> serialized XML.
"serialized XML" is just a little too imprecise, in that you can
serialize XML to a string of characters, and then using whatever
encoding you wish, encode those characters as serialized bytes.  The XML
specification requires that the "encoding" in the preamble match the
character set used to generate bytes.  But if you never generate
bytes..., you never need the encoding header.
> If serialized xml is used (anywhere), one can't ignore the encoding
> attribute. No?
Yes, you can.  If you only serialize to characters, rather than bytes,
then the encoding is spurious, because it hasn't been applied yet.

-Eric.
>
> -Anish
> -- 
>
>> -Eric.
>>> -Anish
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Eric Johnson wrote:
>>>> As per my action item from this last conference call, here's a link
>>>> to the text which we just added around using TextMessage with JMS.
>>>>
>>>> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2008/ws/soapjms/soapjms.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#textmessage-considerations
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since this is a reference into a working document CVS, I'm pasting
>>>> the text below as well:
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         2.4.1 Considerations For Using TextMessage
>>>>
>>>> While the use of |TextMessage| may be attractive in some scenarios,
>>>> there are some considerations that go along with it.
>>>>
>>>>     *
>>>>
>>>>       Since the message is already in text format the "encoding"
>>>>       attribute in the XML header must be ignored.
>
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