RE: proposal for restricting a service to a single interface

Gudge,

As I said in an earlier email, it is often the case that people need to KNOW
whether the endpoints that implement the same interface in a service are
equivalent to each other or not.  There's currently no way of indicating
that in WSDL, at least not that I know of.  I suggested one simple way ( a
special containment element for equivalent endpoints), but Sanjiva's
approach is even simpler.

Cheers,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Martin Gudgin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: Sanjiva Weerawarana; www-ws-desc@w3.org
> Subject: RE: proposal for restricting a service to a single interface
> 
> 
> 
> I must confess to not really understanding the motivation behind this
> proposal. It seems to me that people that want a service to implement
> but a single interface can define such a service today using 
> our current
> spec. And those that want a service to implement multiple 
> interfaces can
> also do that today. I'm not sure why we would want to remove one of
> these capabilities.
> 
> Gudge 
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org 
> > [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sanjiva Weerawarana
> > Sent: 21 April 2003 23:40
> > To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> > 
> > 
> > Following up on the action item I have, I'd like to propose 
> > the following:
> > 
> > - Require all <port>s within a <service> element to implement
> >   exactly the same interface. Thus, each <port> is an alternate
> >   implementation of the same interface.
> > - The interface will be indicated with a new attribute: 
> >     <service interface="qname"> ... </service>
> > - As with any interface in WSDL 1.2, this interface could
> >   have extended any number of other interfaces.
> > 
> > I will soon send the updated binding proposal which takes 
> > this into account to dramatically simplify the binding stuff. 
> > If this doesn't get accepted then I'll re-do the binding proposal.
> > 
> > Sanjiva.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>