- From: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>
- Date: 21 Feb 2003 20:01:42 +0100
- To: "Amelia A. Lewis" <alewis@tibco.com>
- Cc: Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>, Jeffrey Schlimmer <jeffsch@windows.microsoft.com>, WS Description WG <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:51, Amelia A. Lewis wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2003 19:38:17 +0100
> Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com> wrote:
>
> > Is something a service if it only provides output-first operations?
>
> Yes. This is exactly what a publishing service is. The clients learn
> where to subscribe from the service description. The service has
> absolutely no need to ever see a description of what the clients do,
> because it is telling them what they can do.
>
> > If so, how exactly do you rule out clients from this?
>
> What?
Any time someone mentions describing the client someone else shouts that
we agreed to describe the service, not the client.
A client is something that only provides output-first operations, isn't
it? It is a service, then. Someone might want to describe this service,
wouldn't they? 8-)
Jacek Kopecky
Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
http://www.systinet.com/
Received on Friday, 21 February 2003 14:01:54 UTC