Reannouncement - Issue - 77 - BPEL cannot handle some SOAP header bindings

["Furniss, Peter" <Peter.Furniss@choreology.com>]

Title: Message

Due to a mistake on my part, this issue was erroneously announced as number 78. It is really number 77 and is in the issues list with that number. Here it is again with a hand-edit of the number.

 

This issue has already had considerable discussion as "Possible new issue ...", which I've grandfathered into the links list - please use an Issue - 77 - subject line on further discussion messages.

 

Peter

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From: Furniss, Peter
Sent: 21 October 2003 21:36
To: wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsbpel] Issue - 78 - BPEL cannot handle some SOAP header bindings

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Issue - 77   - BPEL cannot handle some SOAP header bindings

Status: open
Date added: 21 Oct 2003
Submitter: Ugo Corda
Date submitted: 21 October 2003
Description: Let's suppose we have the following WSDL file:

<message name="In"> 
    <part name="InPart" element="InElement"/> 
</message> 


<message name="Header"> 
    <part name="HeaderPart" element="HeaderElement"/> 
</message> 


<portType name="myPortType"> 
    <operation name="op1"> 
        <input message="In"/> 
    </operation> 
</portType> 


<binding type="myPortType" ... > 
    <soap:binding ..../> 
    <operation name="op1"> 
        <input> 
            <soap:body parts="InPart" ...> 
            <soap:header message="Header" part="HeaderPart" .../> 
        </input> 
    </operation> 
</binding> 

In this example, the abstract operation "op1" refers to message "In", but the binding brings in an additional second message, "Header", for the concrete operation.

It seems that BPEL would not be able to process the "Header" information in any way. For instance, a "receive" operation would only be able to specify one inputVariable, which would be associated with the "In" message and not the "Header" message. In other words, the "Header" message would carry information to the "receive" operation that BPEL would have no access to.

If this is the case, new Web services defined with BPEL in mind could easily modify this scenario by defining both body and header as being part of a single message, but legacy Web services might be out of reach for BPEL.
Links: Ugo Corda, 20 Oct 2003     Frank Leymann, 21 Oct 2003     Ugo Corda, 21 Oct 2003     Satish Thatte, 21 Oct 2003     Peter Furniss, 21 Oct 2003     Ugo Corda, 21 Oct 2003     Satish Thatte, 21 Oct 2003     Ugo Corda, 21 Oct 2003     Satish Thatte, 21 Oct 2003     Ugo Corda, 21 Oct 2003
Changes: 21 Oct 2003 - new issue

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