Re: New issue [distobj@acm.org: Re: What does WSDL describe?]

Can you succinctly state the issue please? I don't to wade thru
this thread and figure out something else.

Sanjiva.

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> BTW, I'd like to raise the issue mentioned here as an official one
> with the WG.  Thanks.
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> Thanks for your response, Savas, it was very helpful.  I'll just cut
> to what appears to be the source of my confusion ...
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:01:01AM +0100, Savas Parastatidis wrote:
> > I wouldn't call the above description as a "document endpoint" but
> > effectively we are talking about exchange of documents (the messages).
>
> Ok, but you're really talking about the exchange of two very different
> kinds of documents; ones that contain only state (e.g. "12345"), and
> ones that contain an operation and state (e.g. "add(12345)").  My
> concern and confusion stems from the two apparently being treated the
> same.
>
> As a concrete example relevant to interoperability, consider the
> semantics of a successful SOAP response to each of those two example
> messages above.  For the first example, the response message can be
> interpreted to mean "that data is successfully processed", which could
> mean many things, but that's hidden from the client.  But in the
> second example, what does success mean?  Does it mean that the data was
> processed, or does it mean that the number 12345 was added to whatever
> the existing state was?  It could mean both.  And when you combine that
> with the issue Umit is talking about, it's even more ambiguous, as it
> could mean something else entirely because the operation may not be in
> the message. i.e. it could mean the same as "add(12345)", though only
> "12345" is on the wire.  Yikes!
>
> Mark.
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