RE: The attribute formerly known as "name"

All,

[snip]
> 
> "messageName" seems good to me, since that's what it is - the name of
the
> message in the pattern spec.  "messageReference" (or "messageRef")
would
> be good as well, since it makes it clear that this is a reference to
an
> external document.
> 
> --Glen

For what it's worth, I agree that a message is described and hence
"messageName" is appropriate. Without wanting to confuse matters further
I was wondering what people thought about the following suggestion.

Since WSDL defines the messages that are received/sent by a Web Service,
wouldn't it be more appropriate to rename "operation" to "messages" or
even "message-group"?

<interface>
  <messages> or <message-group>
    <input messageName="..."/>
    <output messageName="..."/>
    <fault messageName="..."/>
  </messages>
</interface>

Or

<interface>
  <messages>
    <input message="..."/>
    <output message="..."/>
    <fault message="..."/>
  </messages>
</interface>

Would that confuse people more than it would help?

A web service is an agent that sends/receives messages and not an agent
that has operations (at least that's my understanding from the WSA
document).


Just thinking aloud here.

Regards,
.savas.

Received on Friday, 5 September 2003 14:11:33 UTC