RE: [ws-caf] [Bug 224] New: Mandate WSDL and SOAP?

["Tony Fletcher" <tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com>]

Dear Colleagues,

One can test for use of SOAP so we could make use of that mandatory, but I
think it would not be wise to mandate that alone when there may well be
other viable options better suited to certain situations.  So I would prefer
us to Recommend SOAP as the option to be implemented for interoperability,
but not make that the only conforming option.

Use of WSDL is certainly useful but how does one test for its use?  In other
words how to you distinguish a 'conforming' implementation that was put
together using Web Service description(s) from one that was not?

I think we should only mandate things that are testable (in general, I have
been known to be a bit flexible on this question where it seems to make
sense to bend a little) and perhaps a Recommendation is more in order again.

Best Regards     Tony
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Sent: 31 January 2005 01:31
To: ws-caf@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [ws-caf] [Bug 224] New: Mandate WSDL and SOAP?


http://services.arjuna.com/wscaf-issues/show_bug.cgi?id=224

           Summary: Mandate WSDL and SOAP?
           Product: General
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Text and diagrams
        AssignedTo: ws-caf@lists.oasis-open.org
        ReportedBy: mark.little@arjuna.com
         QAContact: mark.little@arjuna.com


When producing the first editors draft of WS-CF, Eric asks the following 
question, which is based on text cut-and-paste from the WS-Context public 
review specification and thus is a more general question than just for
WS-CF:

"Whether WSDL is mandated or not seems related to the dependency on WSDL 
interfaces for defining operations, in any case I think it would be good to 
clear up the distinction between statements like WSDL isn't mandated yet 
there's a normative binding. Can we agree to mandate WSDL (and SOAP for that

matter)?"



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