WS-MetadataExchange Feature List

 

Feature/Requirement

Client

Server

Comments

Uses WSAddressing

Required

Required

Section 3.4

Uses Absolute IRIs

Required

Required

Section 3.4

IRI compares

Required

Required

Section 3.4

MEX EPR References MUST support WS-Transfer

Required when using MEX EPR Reference

Required, when EPR references are used

Section 3.4

MEX URI Reference MUST support HTTP GET

Required when using MEX URI Reference

Required when URI references are used

Section 3.4

MEX Collection Resource

Optional

Optional

Section 4

Support for GetWSDL

Optional

Required

Section 6.1

All metadata must be available by following references in the WSDL

n/a

Required

Section 6.1

Requester determines the set of implicit features available

n/a

Required

Section 6.1

Support for GetMetadata

Optional

Optional

Section 6.2

GetMetadata/Dialect

Optional

Required

Section 6.2

GetMetadata@Identifier

Optional

Required

Section 6.2

GetMetadata@Content

Optional

Required

Section 6.2

Support for PutMetadata

Optional

Optional

Section 6.3

Support for DeleteMetadata

Optional

Optional

Section 6.4

Support for mex:Location

Optional

Optional

Section 7.1

Support for mex:Reference

Optional

Optional

Section 7.2

Support for MEX metadata (references and data) in an EPR

Optional

Optional

Section 8.1

Support for Policy in an EPR

Optional

Optional

Section 8.2

Exposing Policy for implicit operations

Optional

Optional

Section 9

Support for the MEX Assertion

Optional

Optional

Section 12.1

Support for bootstrapping Metadata retrieval

Optional

Optional

Section 13