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Subject: PR Issue 17: What is the purpose of the WSDL?
PR Issue 17 From: Jonathan Marsh
[mailto:jonathan@wso2.com] 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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