Re: i028: Implications of the presence of ReplyTo

Francisco Curbera wrote:

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>Tom,
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>Aren't the flexibility and optimization concerns you bring up covered
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If the sender has to put a wsa:reply to if there is a wsdl response, 
then it cannot be removed even if the wsdl request/response is mapped
to soap/http post request/response.  The optimization I refer to is for 
that case.

Tom

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>                      Tom Rutt                                                                                                                 
>                      <tom@coastin.com>               To:       Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>                                          
>                      Sent by:                        cc:       Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@sun.com>, public-ws-addressing@w3.org                 
>                      public-ws-addressing-req        Subject:  Re: i028: Implications of the presence of ReplyTo                              
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>                      11/12/2004 12:22 PM                                                                                                      
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>Martin Gudgin wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tom Rutt [mailto:tom@coastin.com]
>>>Sent: 12 November 2004 17:02
>>>To: Marc Hadley
>>>Cc: Martin Gudgin; public-ws-addressing@w3.org
>>>Subject: Re: i028: Implications of the presence of ReplyTo
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>>>Also, if there is no need for transport independence, the
>>>message should
>>>not have to send wsa:reply to when a wsdl request/response is bound
>>>to a request/response transport (e.g., soap http/post binding).
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>>How does the crafter of a message determine whether there is a need for
>>transport independence or not? I might be adding WS-Addressing headers
>>to a message at a layer that is unaware of the binding in use. And the
>>layer processing the WS-Addressing headers on the receiver side might
>>not know what binding the message came in on.
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>I am speaking of an environment where the flexibility of EPRs is
>desired, but the day to day
>infrastructure in use is in an exclusively soap/httpPost environment.
>As an optimization, the sender may know
>the environment it is using, and does not need to send stuff that is
>unnecessary.
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>>>would say wsa:replyTo is only required to be send when the request /
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>>I really believe this would be a mistake. I really want a world where
>>the set of headers is NOT dependant on *how* the message is transmitted
>>( or how some future message will be transmitted ).
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>I want a world where extraneous stuff not needed for a particular
>application of WS:addressing must be sent.
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>Some Fujtisu product people desire the ability to optimize and tune for
>performance in tighly constrainted infrastructure
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>>Gudge
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>>>Tom Rutt
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>>>Marc Hadley wrote:
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>>>>On Nov 12, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Martin Gudgin wrote:
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>>>>>>On Nov 11, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Martin Gudgin wrote:
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>>>>>>>>So it sounds like you'd be in favor of saying that presence
>>>>>>>>of ReplyTo
>>>>>>>>implies a request is expected and that absence
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>>>>>>>Nope. I think that if you expect a reply, you MUST specify [reply
>>>>>>>endpoint]. So in request-response style MEPs [reply
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>>>endpoint] would
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>>>>>>>always be specified in the request message. However, I
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>>>>>>>specifying [reply endpoint] necessarily means you expect
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>>>>>>>request/response stylee). Does that make sense. I'm saying
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>>>>>>>   if b then a
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>>>>>>I understand what you mean but I'm not sure it makes
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>>>sense ;-). If we
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>>>>>>then that would seem like a useful semantic. What's the
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>>>purpose of a
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>>>>>>ReplyTo in a message that isn't expected to generate a reply ?
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>>>>>OK, it depends on what you mean when you say 'generate a
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>>>reply'. Do you
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>>>>>b) 'generate a reply, not necessarily part of the same WSDL MEP'
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>>>>>I have certain protocols that do specify a [reply
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>>>endpoint], do expect
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>>>>That's the kind of scenario I was getting it when I raised
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>>>issue i015
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>>>>about redirection. E.g. if a responder in a request
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>>>response MEP sends
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>>>>back a ReplyTo header, do we expect that to apply to subsequent
>>>>interactions between the requester and responder. I.e. what is the
>>>>scope of the effect of a ReplyTo, is it scoped to an instance of a
>>>>particular MEP or something wider ? Till now I'd been assuming the
>>>>former, are you suggesting it should be the latter ?
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>>>>Cheers,
>>>>Marc.
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>>>>Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
>>>>Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.
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>>>Tom Rutt         email: tom@coastin.com; trutt@us.fujitsu.com
>>>Tel: +1 732 801 5744          Fax: +1 732 774 5133
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