Re: Port Type Inheritance

If so, does anyone else recall ?  Sanjiva, any better alternative way to 
cover the 2 scenarios I describe ?

Best regards,
Ricky

At 05:18 PM 9/7/2002 +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>Unless I'm mistaken we did consider this and rejected it. I may
>not be remembering correctly however.
>
>Sanjiva.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ricky Ho" <riho@cisco.com>
>To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
>Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 11:33 AM
>Subject: Port Type Inheritance
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do we have any discussion around whether we need to provide inheritance
>for
> > WSDL PortType.  By inheritance, I mean the same concept as the Java
> > interface inheritance.  I do see two use cases.
> >
> > 1) Administrative operation
> > ====================
> > For enterprise scale deployment, I want to monitor the health status of
>all
> > my web services, as well as to remote turn on debugging.  Therefore, I
>want
> > to mandate all my services to support certain operations such as "reset",
> > "getHealthStatus".  However, I have no way to enforce that at this moment.
> > It would be nice if I just need to tell my developer that their PortType
> > need to inherit "ManagablePortType" where such operations are defined.
> >
> > 2) Change control
> > =============
> > WSDL itself will evolve and change, but how do we make sure the newer
> > version is backward compatible to the old one so existing client won't
> > break.  If we have PortType inheritance, then the new PortType just need
>to
> > inherit the old PortType.  Of course, the implementation can optionally
> > throw a SOAP fault so that the client will be upgraded.
> >
> > Thoughts and comments ??
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ricky

Received on Sunday, 8 September 2002 20:34:53 UTC