Re: Separate concepts for "service" and "targetResource?" (was RE : /service/@targetResource ?) from Walden Mathews on 2003-05-22 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from May 2003)

From: Walden Mathews <waldenm@optonline.net>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 02:04:20 -0400
To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
Message-id: <010601c32027$fd625840$1702a8c0@WorkGroup>

> This is an important point.  I think we just sortof waved our hands over
it
> in Rennes.  Clearly the URI does not change when an agent is recompiled,
or
> translated from C# to Java without changing defined functionality.  Does
it
> change if the back-end process is moved from an Oracle ERP system to a SAP
> ERP system?  Maybe, because the semantics have probably changed ... but
> maybe not if the exposed operations are the same from a web service
> requresters point of view.

Those "exposed operations", taken all together, comprise a notion
of identity, more or less.

Received on Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:00:07 UTC