Re: [ws-rx] new issue: What is the purpose of the WSDL?

[Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>]

+1

-Anish
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Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> *Title:* What is the purpose of the WSDL?
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> *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.
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> *Proposal:* fix this editorially by adding the following explanatory 
> text to “Appendix B.  WSDL”:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> **Jonathan Marsh** - http://www.wso2.com - 
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