RE: Requesting WSDL Files

The idea of using Google (or other search engines) to discover Web
Service descriptions has been discussed in various places - for instance
http://www.xfront.com/dist-reg/distributed-registry.html (which provides
yet another approach to the where to find the WSDL problem).

Matthew Dovey
Oxford University


> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Cutler, 
> Roger (RogerCutler)
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:42 PM
> To: Savas Parastatidis
> Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Requesting WSDL Files
> 
> 
> Uh, that's a little different from entering a search phrase 
> and getting
> back a link to a WSDL file, isn't it? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Savas Parastatidis [mailto:Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:04 AM
> To: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)
> Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Requesting WSDL Files
> 
> > 
> > I don't think I would want Google to find WSDL files.  In fact, I 
> > strongly suspect that they would resist that themselves, since they
> seem
> > to have a strong preference for returning results that are human 
> > readable.  Which is more or less what I think URL's are best at -- 
> > returning things to people.
> > 
> 
> http://www.google.com/apis/
> 
> <quote>
> 
> Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in
> his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio
> .NET.
> 
> </quote>
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Savas Parastatidis
> http://savas.parastatidis.name
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 7 July 2004 15:24:17 UTC