RE: Counting noses on "is SOAP and/or WSDL intrinsic to the de finition of Web service" from Ugo Corda on 2003-06-05 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:32:03 -0700
To: "Christopher B Ferris" <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Message-ID: <EDDE2977F3D216428E903370E3EBDDC9013A8F15@MAIL01.stc.com>

> Certainly,
> you would not want to have to implement an infinite number of possible reliable messaging
> engines, one for each vocabulary that someone decided to concoct? Same for security,
> for business process choreography, etc.

Choreography might actually be the exception. Specs like WSCI and BPEL seem to be perfectly happy addressing their domain in complete abstraction from the particular WSDL binding used. 

(An actual deployment of the process would, of course, have to be concerned about the effects of particular WSDL bindings on the interoperability of participating services. And any realistic deployment would have to address issues like security and reliability, where the interoperability strength of SOAP would be crucial).

Ugo

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