- From: Jim Webber <Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 02:13:45 -0000
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Mark: > Ah, right, it's that one again. 8-) Indeed it is. > But as I think I must have said before, you seem to be trying > to make WSDL be something that it isn't. That may or may not > be a good thing to do, but every use of WSDL I've seen uses > it describe application interfaces, so that's where my > comments are coming from. I'm not trying to make WSDL anything else, it already is a message description langauge. Some people like to think that it describes this mythical application, but I see no justifcation for that. The "application" that receives a message described in WSDL might be a human reading a fax. How does that tie in with an operation? I guess it all depends on your view point. Some people see web services as a point-to-point means of joining my thing to your thing (with application-specific semantics permeating the network layer). I see it as a canonical messaging platform for joining anything to everything (minus any baggage from the application layer). Jim
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