Re: SOAP UML diagram

Yikes!

+1

:-)

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
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www-ws-arch-request@w3.org wrote on 06/04/2003 04:06:56 PM:

> 
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:16:23AM -0700, David Orchard wrote:
> > Some comments:
> > - I believe that a body is a header that is targetted at the ultimate
> > receiver
> 
> Yah, ditto to what Martin said.  I recall this being discussed and
> (I think) refuted on xml-dist-app sometime ago.
> 
> >   - a collection of 2 or more messages can be an mep
> 
> Really?
> 
> I would say that a MEP describes how a message is exchanged.  It seems
> to me that it's orthogonal to the message itself.  I'm not sure how some
> number of messages would change that.
> 
> >   - a module is a header
> 
> A module is more of a spec.  It can define one or more headers.
> 
> >   - a message has a binding to a protocol.
> 
> Hmm, tough one.  I'd just say that a binding binds SOAP messages
> to an underlying protocol.
> 
> BTW, I'd also recommend using the terminology from SOAP 1.2 section
> 1.5, as those terms were very carefully chosen.  "message" is a bit
> ambiguous; if we mean "SOAP message", I'd suggest using it.  This
> section also provides a great place to discover the kinds of
> relationships that the diagram might want to expose.
> 
> MB
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