Re: [RTF] Behavior definition of Services - public discussion

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:19:34PM +0100, rrw wrote:
>  To my mind, this is a retrograde step (web services may not be
>  semantic, but they ought to be dynamic - it's very hard to come up
>  with tools that do dynamic code generation sensibly), and so I think

Yep.

>  we ought to make a stand against entrenching these programming styles
>  - even if only symbolically, though I admit that this is likely to
>  be controversial (maybe too controversial for a standard ?).

We've got this draft requirement, which should take care of that.  Those
who want to re-invent CORBA will be free to have fun trying, but the
architecture will define (if this is accepted) a generic interface that
can be assumed to be implemented on all Web services, dramatically
lowering coordination costs (like HTTP does, coincidentally 8-).

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/2/06/wd-wsa-reqs-20020605.html#ar003.6

>  To some extent, the whole semantics issue is a red herring: If we end
>  up with a sensible specification, automated reasoning on it ought to
>  be fairly easy with no need for further standardisation (you wouldn't
>  want to standardise the algorithms anyway).

Yep.  Bootstrap, ala the Semantic Web.

MB
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Received on Tuesday, 9 July 2002 13:39:29 UTC