Re: On WSDL "operation"

"Jim Webber" <jim.webber@arjuna.com> writes:
>
> The crux of the matter is whether WSDL is a contract definition language
(it
> specifies documents), or an object IDL. I think the former, though it has
> consistently been abused as the latter.

It defines documents which some may choose to interpret as object
serializations. What's the problem with that?

"Abused" is a strong word for describing an interpretation that
most implementations have of the XML documents that are described
in WSDL: eventually these become data structures in a programming
language and a Java object is a lot more Java programmer friendly
than a DOM tree. That does not make WSDL an object IDL.

Sanjiva.