RE: Issue 169: Propose http method in the operation interface to simplify http binding. from paul.downey@bt.com on 2004-07-01 (www-ws-desc@w3.org from July 2004)

From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:50:50 +0100
To: <dorchard@bea.com>, <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>, <markn@bea.com>, <alewis@tibco.com>
Cc: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
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Dave wrote:
> There's 2 separate concepts: Constrained or Generic interface 
> (ie REST) and the actual protocol verbs (GET/PUT/POST/DELETE) on 
> the wire.  The use of "GET" can apply to many protocols, and 
> even many bindings.

This does reassure me: the interface describes the constriction
and the binding describes the actual HTTP (or whatever) mechanism
employed. Combined with the defaulting mechanism for where
interface/operation@webMethod actually is binding/operation@webMethod, 
i think this looks very neat.

Paul

Received on Thursday, 1 July 2004 04:51:01 UTC