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

["Yalcinalp, Umit" <umit.yalcinalp@sap.com>]

Another big +1 
--umit
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anish Karmarkar [mailto:Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, Oct 19, 2006 2:52 PM
> To: Jonathan Marsh
> Cc: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [ws-rx] new issue: What is the purpose of the WSDL?
> 
> +1
> 
> -Anish
> --
> 
> Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> > *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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