- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:37:31 -0400
- To: Krishna Sankar <ksankar@cisco.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Krishna, On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:18:45AM -0700, Krishna Sankar wrote: > Mark, > > A little more details would be helpful for me at least. Brings > out the thoughts. I kind-of understand the need to articulate a minimal > subset of common information/metadata which could be available across > *all* web services. I am unclear on the "generic language" part - do you > mean a vocabulary (URI, state, version, ...) plus an interaction pattern > ? Analogous to a well defined base class, I assume, with fields and > methods. Yes, exactly right. A common set of generic methods, fault codes, etc.. that could be defined as a "base class" from which all Web services could "inherit" (just to put it in OO terms - but I'm not suggesting that we architect it that way or require any particular OO model). IMO, this has been a major architectural element missing from existing Web services work; you never know what to do with the URI that you've got. But of course, it wouldn't prevent custom methods from being defined. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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