RE: Web Service Definition [Was "Some Thoughts ..."]

+1, Mark!

Roger, I deliberately kept my attempt at a Web Services definition loose
so as to allow for multiple types of message exchange patterns, and I
believe it accommodates all "granularity" concerns that I heard voiced
on the teleconference, including Dave O's, Anne's, and my own.

--steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: "Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)"
> Cc: Vinoski, Stephen; Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com;
> www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Web Service Definition [Was "Some Thoughts ..."]
> 
> 
> Roger,
> 
> > I like the way that this definition is going, too, but I 
> think that as it
> > stands it is too broad because I think it will include 
> orchestrations and
> > the sense of the group seemed to be that orchestrations are 
> a higher level
> > construction than web services.  In order to fix this I 
> suggest that we
> > define a web service as having the following participants, 
> all identified by
> > URI's:
> > 
> > 1) A single "requestor".
> > 
> > 2) A single "responder".
> > 
> > 3) Zero or more "recipients".
> > 
> > A web service is initiated by a communication from the 
> requestor to the
> > responder and the responder sends any number of 
> communications to the
> > recipients.  All these commmunications are via web protocols.
> 
> I think you're too narrow now. 8-O  SOAP 1.2 explicitly supports
> an extensible array of message exchange patterns[1].  Defining a web
> service in these terms would unnecessarily restrict our scope, IMO.
> 
> For example, consider a voting service where I can ask a set of people
> to vote for or against something.  In this case, there are multiple
> responders.
> 
> I'm not sure how what Steve or I suggested relates to orchestrations.
> I see orchestrations (as I understand the term) to be Composites[2],
> that is, that they are themselves Web services.
> 
>  [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/#soaptmep
>  [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CompositePattern
> 
> MB
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> Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@planetfred.com
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