Re: [wsn] What's this about refprops disappearing from WS-A?

[David Hull <dmh@tibco.com>]

Ugo Corda wrote:

David,

I don't think the WS-A decision should have such a big impact on us. The latest WS-Resource spec talks about a number of different "Access Pattern Embodiments", where the use of WS-Addressing is just one possibility. Even in the case where WS-Addressing is used, the "WS-Addressing embodiment using Reference Properties" is just one possible option (which, I imagine, will have to be dropped because of the WS-A decision).

I agree that there doesn't appear to be any great technical problem here.  I'm more concerned about the larger issues of how the various standards are going to cohere, whether we now need to pay closer attention to anything else now, and whether any of this might affect our schedules.  There may not be much going on here from our point of view, but we need to understand just what is going on.

In any event, the efforts made to decouple WSN/WSRF from WSA are looking good in retrospect.

 

Ugo

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hull [mailto:dmh@tibco.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:34 AM
To: wsn-oasis
Subject: [wsn] What's this about refprops disappearing from WS-A?

Amy Lewis on WSDL 2.0 tells me that WS-A has dropped refprops from EPRs, and that Mark Baker writes very favorably of the development here.  More can be found on the WSA issues list. At this point, I'm not taking a position on SOAP vs. REST or similar issues.  I merely note that dropping reference properties from EPRs would appear to impact WS-RAP, WS-RF and by implication, us.