- From: Assaf Arkin <arkin@intalio.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 02:51:50 -0700
- To: Steve Ross-Talbot <steve@enigmatec.net>
- CC: Jean-Jacques Dubray <jjd@eigner.com>, "'Burdett, David'" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>, Daniel_Austin@grainger.com, public-ws-chor@w3.org
Steve Ross-Talbot wrote: > > I have made this WSDL non-WSDL a topic for discussion at the call > later today. > I'd like to get a summary of the views expressed so far ... any > volunteers? > > Cheers > > Steve T Here's a list of what I've heard so far. I've tried my best to express the view as briefly and broadly as possible, so people who support one or more views can elaborate more. Listed from least to most likely to focuse solely on WSDL: 1. We need to define choreographies in abstract terms. Use of WSDL is an implementation detail. 2. We need to define abstract choreographies with bindings to multiple technologies, including but not limited to WSDL. 3. Using WSDL prevents us from supporting other specifications that address RM, security, transactions, etc. 4. You can't write a good choreography language using WSDL, but you can bind a good choreography to WSDL. 5. The interesting capabilities are already supported by WSDL and specifications that extend WSDL. 6. Being a W3C WG implies ... Feel free to add, remove, expand, donate 2 cents, etc ... I want to add one request for clarification. I did that a few times before, I hope a few people would be willing to take on it this time. WSDL encapsulates two layers within the same specification that personally I would have liked to see written as two different parts of the same specification for better clarity (similar to the two parts in XSDL and SOAP). One layer deals with abstract service types as defined by their interface implying what the service looks like but not any particular service. The other layer deals with actual services as defined by their end-points, protocol binding and the interface they support. Someone may say "I don't like the specification to refer to WSDL services" and someone else may say "I like the specification to refer to WSDL interfaces". These two points of view are not contradictory in any way. However they do become contradictory if we don't specify what part of WSDL we refer to. So if anyone has an opinion for or against WSDL, can you please clarify whether you refer to the WSDL services, WSDL interfaces or WSDL whole. I think that alone would bring a bit more agreement into the discussion. arkin
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