Re: Proposed renamings

+1 to 'interface' and 'endpoint'
-1 to interfaceBinding

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
phone: +1 508 234 3624

www-ws-desc-request@w3.org wrote on 02/27/2003 11:22:07 AM:

> 
> Philippe, others,
> 
> I like renaming portType to interface and port into endpoint (notice
> lower-case 'p' as I think it's now one word, I guess I could live with
> endPoint, too, but I think it would be confusing).
> 
> I don't like the binding renaming to interfaceBinding, I'd keep
> 'binding' because it's shorter and I think it's clear from the context
> that it is an interface binding (especially if, as I expect, the
> attribute 'type' is renamed to 'interface'). Otherwise we could have
> endpoint -> interfaceEndpoint or even interfaceBindingEndpoint and so
> on.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>                    Jacek Kopecky
> 
>                    Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
>                    http://www.systinet.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:20, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> > [I thought I sent these yesterday but don't see it in the archives, so
> > sending it again]
> > 
> > I've got an action item to start a proposal on renaming elements 
and/or
> > attributes in WSDL 1.2. This proposal is based on the latest WSDL 1.2
> > drafts and the requirements document. I'll keep track of 
sub-sequa=ente
> > proposals
> > 
> > - portType
> >  The requirements document has the following:
> >  [[
> >  Interface (AKA Port Type)
> >   [Definition: A logical grouping of operations. An Interface 
represents
> >   an abstract Web Service type, independent of transmission protocol 
and
> >   data format.]
> >  ]]
> >  http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-desc-reqs-20021028/#normDefs
> > 
> > In 2.4.2 XML Representation of Port Type Component:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030124/#PortType_XMLRep
> > 
> >  A [local name] of portType
> > 
> >  would read
> > 
> >  A [local name] of interface
> > 
> > -  EndPoint (AKA Port)
> >  The requirements document has the following:
> >  [[
> >  EndPoint (AKA Port)
> >   [Definition: An association between a fully-specified 
InterfaceBinding
> >   and a network address, specified by a URI [IETF RFC 2396], that may 
be
> >   used to communicate with an instance of a Web Service. An EndPoint
> >   indicates a specific location for accessing a Web Service using a
> >   specific protocol and data format.]
> >  ]]
> >  http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030124/#Port_XMLRep
> > 
> > In 2.11.2 XML Representation of Port Component
> > 
> >  A [local name] of port
> > 
> >  would read
> > 
> >  A [local name] of endPoint
> > 
> > 
> > We may also do the following but, if we don't, I'll recommend changing
> > the glossary of our requirements document.
> > 
> > - binding
> >  The requirements document has the following:
> >  [[
> >  InterfaceBinding
> >   [Definition: An association between an Interface, a concrete 
protocol
> >   and/or a data format. An InterfaceBinding specifies the protocol
> >   and/or data format to be used in transmitting Messages defined by 
the
> >   associated Interface.]
> >  ]]
> >  http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-desc-reqs-20021028/#normDefs
> > 
> > In 2.7.2 XML Representation of Binding Component
> > In http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030124/#Binding_XMLRep
> > 
> >  A [local name] of binding
> > 
> >  would read
> > 
> >  A [local name] of interfaceBinding
> > 
> > 
>