- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:26:13 -0500
- To: nikola.stojanovic@acm.org
- Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org
On Mar 17, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Никола Стојановић wrote: > Bijan Parsia wrote: >> >> On Mar 17, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Josh@oklieb wrote: >> >>> Even so, development of that software would require knowledge about >>> the service which is generally beyond the (necessary but not >>> sufficient) descriptive capabilities of WSDL. >> >> I lost the thread. My point was that WSDL allows you to automatically >> invoke. > What does it mean to "automatically invoke"? Is there something like > "non-automatically invoke"? Yeah, it's a crappy phrase. What we generally mean is that if we have a WSDL capable environment, and we have some indication in a program that we want to invoke a certain operation, that the system can figure out how to perform the details of the invocation without intervention by me. So, for example, if I have a wsdl with 3 bindings for an operation, and for some reason I can't use one of them, the system can switch to another. It's a bit like late binding in method dispatch, I guess. What it automates are things like setting up the port, constructing the HTTP headers, etc. etc. Not terribly exciting, after all! Cheers, Bijan.
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