RE: HTTP binding options

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] 
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:28 PM
> To: David Orchard
> Cc: 'Web Services Description'
> Subject: Re: HTTP binding options
> 
> Qualifier; I'm not trying to *restrict* WSDL to only 
> supporting RESTful services.  I'm just trying to ensure that 
> it can be used to describe RESTful services.  That means we 
> need to ensure that WSDL itself doesn't violate any of REST's 
> constraints as they relate to service description.  

Uh, no, it just means that we need to ensure that WSDL can describe services
that use the REST constraints, which is a small subset of the services that
WSDL can describe.   A constructive proof of that is that WSDL can (I think)
describe HTTP itself.  

Received on Monday, 10 November 2003 15:41:18 UTC