Re: Web Service Description: Charter Requirements

As further input, here are some additional requirements that come
to mind when reading the charter; to my mind at least (upon
examination, it looks like the list below has an implicit SOAP
biais).

Jean-Jacques.

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4.2: Simplicity

Must support an open content model (charter says: "must support
distributed extensibility" and "will look into extending
interface descriptions in a decentralized fashion").


4.3 Interface description

Must describe SOAP 1.2 messages, including header, body,
encoding, fault, RPC, actor (charter says: "must describe
messages available via interface", "must describe error messages"
and "make sure SOAP 1.2 extensibility mechanism can be
expressed").

Must describe SOAP 1.2 header and body's content type (charter
says: "must define [a mechanism for describing data types and
structures]  based on XML Schema" and "take into account ending
work going on in XML Protocol").

Must describe SOAP 1.2 RPC parameters types (ibid.).

Must support SOAP 1.2 intermediairies (charter says: "make sure
SOAP 1.2 extensibility mechanism can be expressed")


4.4 Description of interaction with a service

Must describe SOAP 1.2 MEP (Message Exchange Pattern) (charter
says: "must [...] describe [...] one-way messages, [...]
request-response")


4.5 Binding description

Must ensure that SOAP 1.2, e.g, SMTP or BEEP bindings can be
described (charter says: "ensure that other SOAP bindings can be
described").

Received on Tuesday, 12 February 2002 11:33:19 UTC