Re: [wsrf] WS-RAP; section 2.3 - WS-Resource definition

[Steve Graham <sggraham@us.ibm.com>]

Rich:
To clarify, your situation is such that
a Web service deployed at some URL is the access point for a collection
(potentially many) resources?  

Given my assumption is true, I don't
see why you have come to the conclusion that the definition of WS-Resource
precludes it.  The examples in the WSA embodiments (sections 3.1 and
3.2) suggest this pattern where a single web service is front ending 2
resources.  Note that it is the pair (web service + resource) that
is the WS-Resource. So in the examples in the WSA embodiments contain 2
WS-Resources.

Does this help?

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Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM@IBMUS wrote on 10/05/2004
08:53:02 AM:

> While I haven't finished working through exactly how the WSRP protocol
could best 
> leverage WSRF, I (and others on the WSRP TC) are leaning towards the
at least some 
> of the web service endpoints containing references to a set of resources
rather 
> than just one. The proposed definition ("A WS-Resource is a Web
service through 
> which a resource can be accessed.") excludes such use cases.
Any reason the 
> definition can not be broadened to "A WS-Resource is a Web service
through which a 
> set of one or more resources can be accessed." This would carry
into many other 
> places in the text where the resource is referred to in the singular.

> Rich Thompson
> OASIS WSRP TC Chair