RE: attributes & WSDL (was: Re: attributes in CORBA IDL) from Savas Parastatidis on 2003-07-01 (public-ws-desc-state@w3.org from July 2003)

From: Savas Parastatidis <Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:25:30 +0100
To: <public-ws-desc-state@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BC28A9E979C56C44BCBC2DED313A447001D75B7E@bond.ncl.ac.uk>

Sanjiva, thank you for summarising.

> 
> OK, so this discussion is interesting, but I'm not sure whether
> there's a hint of agreement or not. Let me try summarizing:
> 
> - add an "attribute" construct to wsdl:interface with semantics
>   as in OMG IDL's attributes
> - leave out specific functions like findAttributes() and queryAttrs()
>   as out of scope for WSDL
> - grid guys can define those functions in their base interface
> 
> Is that an accurate statement of where this discussion seems to
> be saying?
> 

The above is my position.

Perhaps we could investigate the possibility of doing a bit more than
OMG's IDL (point 1) for WSDL's attribute construct. For example, some
additional metadata could be added.

.savas.

Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:25:36 UTC