RE: Explicit Association of wsa:Action values to an operation's messages

There are several approaches one could take;

1.	Write a separate portType per WS-Trust binding in a single WSDL
document.
2.	Write multiple WSDL documents, one per WS-Trust binding.
3.	Accept that knowledge of wsa:Action WRT WS-Trust bindings is
out-of-band.

Note that the fact that WS-Trust and WSDL both use the word 'binding' is
an (un)happy accident.

Gudge

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Ruchith Fernando
> Sent: 18 July 2005 12:59
> To: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
> Cc: Sanjiva Weerawarana
> Subject: Explicit Association of wsa:Action values to an 
> operation's messages
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about the Web Services Addressing 1.0 - 
> WSDL Binding [1]. 
> 
> Section 3.1 Explicit Association states that in the case of wsdl 1.1
> we should specify the wsa:Action values for the messages in the
> operation element's input and output child elements in the
> wsdl:portType element.
> 
> WS-Trust specification[3] defines a SecurityTokenService (wsdl [2])
> which has a wsdl:portType called "SecurityTokenService".
> There is a "RequestSecurityToken" operation defined in this portType.
> There are 4 types of requests: issuance, validation, renewal and
> cancellation that can be consumed by the same "RequestSecurityToken"
> operation.
> 
> BUT the WS-Trust spec[3], requires the use of different wsa:Action
> values for each of the input/output messages for those different
> behaviors. The spec calls each one of the behaviors 'binding's which
> made me think that it expects different wsdl:bindings of the
> "SecurityTokenService" portType for each of the different behaviors.
> But according to [1] it not possible to associate wsa:Action values
> with the input/output element in the wsdl:binding.
> 
> Is this behaviour expected by the WS-Trust spec incorrect? 
> 
> Am I correct if I say that, to have n different wsa:Action values for
> the input messages' operation 'foo' we have to have n different
> wsdl:portType definitions in the wsdl?
> 
> Please correct me if I have missed something :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ruchith Fernando
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20050413/
> [2] 
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws
> -trust/ws-trust.wsdl
> [3] 
> ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ws-trust.pdf
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:50:06 UTC