RE: WSA assumes SOAP?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:dorchard@bea.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:19 PM
> To: 'Mike Champion'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: WSA assumes SOAP?
> 
> 
> I'm really torn on this one.

Likewise!

> Maybe they are "best practices"?  
> Or a "level 1" web service?

I like "Level 1" web service.  They are perfectly legitimate,
and good for some subset of use cases (Paul Prescod might
argue that this doesn't need to be a proper subset!).  Still,
ya gotta pay the SOAP tax if you want WS-Security ... ya gotta 
pay the WSDL tax if you want choreography, etc. etc. etc.

It's analogous to well-formed XML ... perfectly legal, but you
gotta pay the DTD/schema tax if you want constraints, defaults, validation,
data binding, types, etc. etc. etc.