- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:23:58 -0400
- To: Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>
- Cc: WS Description List <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:03:05AM -0700, Martin Gudgin wrote: > > Nothing but interoperability problems can result from such an > > approach, > > IMO. > > I don't see any such problems. The WSDL tells you what messages the > service accepts and what messages the service emits. Exactly. Information required to understand the semantics of the message is in the WSDL, and not in the message; that's the definition of non-self-descriptive. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how interoperability is detrimentally affected by a lack of self-description. > I'm not pretending there is no operation. Sorry, I didn't mean to address that comment to you specifically, Gudge; I don't know what you believe in this respect. But there are others here who do believe that. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Seeking work on large scale application/data integration projects and/or the enabling infrastructure for same.
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