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Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TN
Hi John, Here is the "Problem Outline" from the requirement document, authored by Karsten, that finally was solved by the "wsdlDeployment" useType in UDDI V3's accessPoint: "UDDI's modeling today is quite stringent in terms of delineating between modeling implementations (accessPoints of bindings) and modeling technical interfaces (overviewUrls of tModels). While this strict bifurcation is logical from a conceptual point of view, it does not accommodate a common scenario presented in the Web Services landscape: a single document that performs both of these goals. As such, modeling a "deployment document" which represents both the technical fingerprint and the access point is rather cumbersome in UDDI v1/v2. A concrete example of such a "deployment document" is a WSDL document which represents both the interface for a given service as well as the service endpoint. Modeling such a coupled WSDL file is awkward in UDDI: it requires either (1) an unnatural decoupling of the WSDL file into separate parts or (2) registering the coupled WSDL file as a tModel that has no intention of being reused. Both of these options are unnatural. Option #1 forces developers to modify existing WSDL files in an unintuitive way. Option #2 ends up polluting UDDI with tModels that are not compliant with UDDI's vision of the way tModels represent abstract interface information that is meant to be reused. This particular use case is but one example of how the rigidity of the UDDI data model prevents the kinds of real world use cases that UDDI needs to support. Without providing the means to model such use cases, UDDI runs the risk of ostracizing a large set of its intended community - namely developers of Web Services." While it is not explicitely stated in the specification, it is still represents a valid requirement. Claus -----Original Message----- From: John Colgrave [mailto:colgrave@hursley.ibm.com] Sent: Freitag, 22. November 2002 16:19 To: uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [uddi-spec] another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TN another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TNClaus, You will have to show me where in the published V3 specification there is any text that supports your view of what wsdlDeployment should be (have been) as I just can't see it. John ----- Original Message ----- From: Von Riegen, Claus To: 'John Colgrave' ; uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TN John, At least the initial design goal Karsten describes in his earlier mail is correct. The wsdlDeployment stuff was invented in order to a) let service providers simply put the URL to the WSDL file in the bindingTemplate's accessPoint without any additional tModel modeling and b) let service consumers get all the Web service's metadata by retrieving the remote WSDL file. The question we now have on the table is: are providers of "ad hoc" Web services required to register their Web services conformant to the current version of the WSDL TN or will the WSDL TN also allow the alternative to model the bindingTemplate with nothing but the deployment WSDL's URL in the accessPoint? Claus -----Original Message----- From: John Colgrave [mailto:colgrave@hursley.ibm.com] Sent: Freitag, 22. November 2002 10:19 To: uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [uddi-spec] another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TN Karsten, Are you talking about wsdlDeployment as a categorization value from the uddi.org:categorization:types scheme, or wsdlDeployment as a useType value on accessPoint? I can imagine that wsdlDeployment as a categorization might have been intended for the use you describe, but that is not at all clear from the published V3 spec. I think it is quite clear that wsdlDeployment as a useType value on accessPoint is meant only as a level of indirection for the endpoint, and that is the use of wsdlDeployment that we need to focus on. Section B.1.2 says 'Instead of directly providing the network address in the accessPoint, it is occasionally useful or necessary to provide this information through indirect means. One common scenario for such a behavior is when the accessPoint is embedded within a WSDL file. In such a scenario, the UDDI accessPoint contains the address of the WSDL file, and the client then must retrieve the WSDL file and extract the end point address from the WSDL file itself. In this case, decorating the UDDI accessPoint with a useType="wsdlDeployment" is appropriate.' I think this is quite clear that the only thing of relevance in the WSDL file is the end point address and it does not imply anything about whether there are any tModels for the reusable parts of the WSDL etc. I must admit that I sneaked in the categorization as well in the last update I sent but that was because the example in the spec. added it when the accessPoint was used. If it is the categorization that is causing the confusion then we can remove that, but I think the V3 spec. needs to be clarified as they currently use it in the way that I did. ----- Original Message ----- From: Karsten Januszewski To: uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:15 PM Subject: [uddi-spec] another issue with WSDLDeployment in current TN Another issue with the wsdlDeployment in the current TN is that it was introduced in v3 to address the case when the WSDL information was decided not meant for reuse, a one-off, service. As such, the thinking was that there would be no tModel modeled and it would be a simple way to publish web services. However, the tn for both v2 and v3 assume that all the tModel modeling occurs along with the wsdlDeployment decoration. I fear that we are moving away from the initial design goal. Regards, Karsten Karsten Januszewski Program Manager, UDDI and Web Services Microsoft Corporation Phone: 425.707.5818 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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