Re: targetResource wording

+1

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
phone: +1 508 234 3624

www-ws-desc-request@w3.org wrote on 06/15/2003 10:51:07 AM:

> 
> "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> writes:
> > 
> > So why not have the spec mint a URI which identifies a resource
> > which represents *every* other resource (i.e. every resource
> > everywhere, that exists, has existed, or will exist)?  Then
> > you won't need targetResource at all, as it can be assumed
> > that its value will always be this URI.
> 
> Huh? Either I don't understand what you said or you have
> totally misunderstood the purpose of @targetResource.
> 
> The purpose of @targetResource is to allow one to record the
> fact that services s1 and s2 which have the same @targetResource
> in fact are about the same resource. That means that they have
> some relationship between them. The nature of the relationship
> itself is not indicated, but most likely the @interface of
> s1 and that of s2 indicate what they do (to each other or to 
> whoever cares about the fact that they are related).
> 
> Having the spec create a single URI for all services to use
> clearly does not serve that purpose.
> 
> Sanjiva.
> 

Received on Sunday, 15 June 2003 11:16:31 UTC