- From: Clemm, Geoff <gclemm@rational.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:17:05 -0500
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
The WebDAV family of protocols (RFC 2616, RFC 2518, RFC 3253) have been carefully designed to provide for interoperability. This means for example, that an RFC2616 client will work against RFC 2616, RFC 2518, and RFC 3253 servers, and an RFC 2518 client will work against an RFC 2518 and RFC 3253 server. In contrast, a Web Services interface provides no particular mechanism to support this kind of interoperability. You certainly could define a Web Service interface for each of these protocols if you didn't care about interoperability between them, but it is unclear what would be the point (other than market-hype compatibility :-). For example, the "service lookup" feature of Web Services is rather pointless in any even moderately successful authoring protocol, since you'd end up with thousands (if not hundred's of thousands) of registered "authoring web services". Cheers, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: hugh [mailto:hugh0123@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:41 PM To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: Authoring Web Service I have just started learning about WebDAV and have a few thoughts/questions that someone on this group may be able to help with. I understand WebDAV to be a HTTP-extension-based protocol that enables functionality that is important to distributed authoring. When I looked at the draft specs, it appears that the method extensions seem to map to operations performed on authored resources and the payload of the message seems to be arguments of sorts to the WebDAV server for the method being invoked. I was wondering if the WebDAV specs (and sub-specs) would be amenable to extrapolation to a general-purpose Web-Services interface definition and whether there would be any point in thinking this way. As a newbie to this technology, it seems like an obvious connection to me. In fact I suspect that I will find a whole bunch of other initiatives to define WSDL interfaces for "content managerment" or "distributed authoring" or.. Thank you for any pointers to discussions or links to related topics! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards(r) http://movies.yahoo.com/
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