RE: Extending the functionality of an existing Web Service

+1
Inheritance is what I read this to be pointing to.  And we (gack) did that.

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Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development

-----Original Message-----
From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Jean-Jacques Moreau
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:26 AM
To: paul.downey@bt.com
Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
Subject: Re: Extending the functionality of an existing Web Service


I personally read this as hinting at... inheritance! I'd be fined 
with supporting versioning as well; but don't we get this with 
URIs already?

Jean-Jacques.

paul.downey@bt.com wrote:

> In the Interface Description section of the charter there is the
following:
> 
>  Developers are likely to want to extend the functionality of an existing 
>  Web service.  The Working Group will look into extending interface
descriptions
>  in a decentralized fashion, i.e. without priori agreement with the
original
>  interface designers. 
> 
> We read this as WSDL 2.0 providing a mechanism for versioning a Web
Service,  
> at least an outline how to add contents of a message without breaking
existing 
> interactions.
> 
> There appears to be nothing in the requirements relating to how to version
a
> Web Service beyond being able to identify versions of services and
descriptions.
> 
> Has this issue been lost, or is our reading of the charter incorrect ?
> 
> Paul
>

Received on Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:57:29 UTC