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

["Mark Little" <mark.little@arjuna.com>]

Tony, I agree.

Mark.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Fletcher" <tony_fletcher@btopenworld.com>
To: <ws-caf@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: [ws-caf] [Bug 224] New: Mandate WSDL and SOAP?


> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bugzilla-daemon@arjuna.com [mailto:bugzilla-daemon@arjuna.com]
> 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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