Issue i020, subissue iv: resolution proposal

I took an action during last week's call to send wordings that can be 
added to the core spec to resolve issue i020, subissue iv.

Based on last week's call here is the information I have tried to 
capture in the paragraph at the end of this email:

1) WSDL 2.0 and WS-Addressing uses the same term "endpoint" which can 
cause confusion (a WSDL endpoint can also be used to provide addressing 
information).
2) Jonathan's explanation that there are three different thing: an 
endpoint, description of an endpoint and a reference to an endpoint.
3) An endpoint can have multiple descriptions
4) Multiple EPRs can point to the same endpoint (this was not discussed 
during the call, but I see this as a logical conclusion from the discussion)
5) An EPR and a Description are optimized to do different things. I 
don't think there was an agreement that an EPR is optimized for runtime 
use and description for static use (suggested by Paco). Instead I have 
used wordings which say that an EPR is optimized to convey addressing 
information and WSDL is optimized to describe the service.

I would like to propose that we add the paragraph at the end of this 
email in the Introduction section of core right after:
"A Web service endpoint is a (referenceable) entity, processor, or 
resource to which Web service messages can be addressed. Endpoint 
references convey the information needed to address a Web service endpoint."

New text to be added:
"Note that WSDL 2.0 has an Endpoint component [ref] which along with 
other WSDL 2.0 components can be used to describe a Web service 
endpoint. A Web service endpoint may in fact have multiple such 
descriptions. Similarly multiple EPRs can be used to convey information 
needed to address a particular Web service endpoint. An EPR is optimized 
to convey information required to address a Web service endpoint whereas 
a WSDL 2.0 description is optimized to describe a Web service."

Please suggest alternatives/changes if you don't like the exact text.

Thx.

-Anish
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Received on Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:46:50 UTC