Re: URIs and SPARQL endpoints

According to the Web Services addressing spec 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-core-20050215/)

"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."

An endpoint reference (as defined here) includes a URI (as an address 
for the endpoint), parameters, and some other stuff.

Sure would be nice if these definitions were easier to find (and 
clearer;  hint to W3C spec writers).

--Frank



Dan Brickley wrote:
> * Hans Teijgeler <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl> [2006-06-19 10:24+0200]
>> Hi,
>>  
>> When trying to use SPARQL one stumbles upon the concept of "endpoint". When
>> I checked in the (Candidate) Recommendation the word endpoint is not used at
>> all. Yet, when you use Google you get many deliberations about endpoints,
>> but nowhere a definition or standardization. How come? Where can I find
>> reading material about (SPARQL) endpoints that doesn't assume that I already
>> know what it is?
> 
> Interesting point. The word I think comes from the SOAP community, but I
> looked in the SOAP specs and similarly found only casual mention of it
> there. Hunting further, I find it in the "normative definitions" section
> of the Web Services Description Requirements doc at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-desc-reqs/#normDefs
> 
> [[
> EndPoint (AKA Port)
> 
>     [Definition: An association between a fully-specified
>     InterfaceBinding and a network address, specified by a URI [IETF RFC
>     2396], that may be used to communicate with an instance of a Web
>     Service. An EndPoint indicates a specific location for accessing a
>     Web Service using a specific protocol and data format.]
> ]]
> 
> That last phrase is applicable; perhaps the entire definition
> even, since the protocol uses WSDL.
>>  
>> I also have a direct question: what is the difference between a URI and an
>> endpoint? Somewhere I read a discussion about this, but the participants in
>> that discussion didn't seem to agree with each other, so it seems that I am
>> not completely alone in my ignorance.
> 
> URIs are identifiers, basically names for things on the Web. Endpoints,
> like many other things, can be named with URIs. There's a lot more about 
> URIs in http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
>> Can someone help me?
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Hans
>>  
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