RE: Sample SOAP message on the wire with Reference Properties and Parameters (without a wrapper!)

Savas,

An endpoint goes to the IT Architect. He says: "Hey Doc, it hurts when I 
publish two endpoint references
that result in SOAP messages that are indistinguishable from one another 
and I don't know which policy
to apply to the messages". The IT Architect replies: "Don't do that."

:-)

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://webpages.charter.net/chrisfer/blog.html
phone: +1 508 377 9295

public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org wrote on 11/23/2004 11:32:28 AM:

> 
> <snip />
> 
> > 
> > But more importantly, if the only entity that can distinguish between
> a
> > prop and a param is the server, then I don't see why the spec has both
> > types.  We should be able to drop one (flip a coin:) without any
> impact
> > on the installed base -- servers already have the requisite internal
> > config and magic to distinguish between the two -- and greatly
> simplify
> > things.
> 
> Hey Rich,
> 
> I think the reason the authors decided to have both is because of the
> need to compare EPRs and associate different metadata with different
> EPRs but still allow different Params to be sent to a single EPR.
> 
> The two ReplyTo headers may have different policies associated with
> them...
> 
> <ReplyTo>
>   <Address>http://service1.com</Address>
>   <RefeferenceProperties>
>     <customer>urn:id</customer>
>   </ReferenceProperties>
>   <ReferenceParameters>
>     <account>urn:id</account>
>   </ReferenceParameters>
> </ReplyTo>
> 
> <ReplyTo>
>   <Address>http://service1.com</Address>
>   <RefeferenceProperties>
>     <customer>urn:id</customer>
>     <account>urn:id</account>
>   </ReferenceProperties>
> </ReplyTo>
> 
> The first one allows a service provider to have policies for specific
> customers while the other to have policies for the specific account of a
> customer.
> 
> An interesting question is how the receiving endpoint is to know in this
> case which of the two set of policies to apply based on the headers in
> the SOAP message.
> 
> Best regards,
> .savas.
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:42:26 UTC