RE: [wsrp-pfb] UDDI straw man - part 2

[Andre Kramer <andre.kramer@eu.citrix.com>]

Title: RE: [wsrp-pfb] UDDI straw man - part 2

We need to decide if publishing by admins by hand (i.e. using a HTML UI) is a requirement for UDDI publishing that we must support.

My suggestion for making the producer reference optional assumed that it was. This would:

- allow the "producer reference" to be optional (i.e. not required) when publishing a portlet. This allows publishing a pure "portlet handle". A consumer must use some additional knowledge (e.g. only one producer server found for a business publishing the portlet) to be able to use the portlet.

- allow other forms of producer reference. As we discussed on the call, one could use the producer's wsdl url, some sort of discovery doc (WS-MetaDataExchange) or an inter-registry link to form other types of reference. We would only standardize use of producer service key.

On approach 2 slides:

- publishing portlet diagram should show the portlet handle as the access point value.

- rename "producer reference" to "producer service reference" (see above).

- producer binding templates could optionally carry the wsdl tModel as well as others [though I agree that you already make the connection by linking the producer tModel to wsdl tModel].

regards,
Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Jacob [mailto:richard.jacob@de.ibm.com]
Sent: 06 November 2003 15:25
To: wsrp-pfb@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsrp-pfb] UDDI straw man - part 2

Hi all,

following our discussion I edited the straw man.
The follow on approach starts at page 7.

I also started to play around with the UDDI test registries offered by IBM
(https://uddi.ibm.com/testregistry) and Microsoft
(https://test.uddi.microsoft.com).
Here I encountered one problem:
I wasn't able to add a producer reference to the Portlet's businessService
entity.
Here I was not able to reference the WSRP Producer Reference tModel (which
I set up) and to edit the keyvalue, i.e. add our tModel to the categoryBag.
It didn't work in both UIs, IBM & MS.

This seems weird, the API allows to do that (need to crosscheck), and I saw
similar approaches for such a usage of an categorization tModel in various
UDDI papers.

Klaus, do you happen to know how I can do that (see staw man pages 9 and 12
- publishing Portlets) ?
Or did I miss something?

(See attached file: WSRP-UDDI-Strawman.ppt)

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards,

        Richard Jacob
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