RE: Hypertext and Web Services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:dorchard@bea.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: 'Paul Prescod'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Hypertext and Web Services
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> SOAP 1.2 and WSDL are not just syntaxes, they are also contain many
> architectural elements.  And they are the foundational 
> architecture elements for web services.  There are things 
> like the soap processing  model, the
> message exchange pattern descriptions, the transport binding 
> framework, etc. that are all important architectural components.  

Yes, and I think a big part of our job is to expose these 
architectural elements, and clarify their relationship to one
another, the Web, and to other proto-standards in the web services
arena (such as those in the areas of security and orchestration).