Re: Some new text

+1 .. I will add it to the editor's draft pending ratification. If
anyone wishes to object please holler.

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Daniels" <gdaniels@sonicsoftware.com>
To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:24 PM
Subject: Some new text


> 
> 
> Hi folks:
> 
> I'd like to propose amended text for the first paragraph in section
> 2.8.1 of part 1.  The idea is to express in slightly greater detail what
> a "property" actually is.  Text follows:
> 
> A "property" in the Features and Properties architecture represents a
> named runtime value which affects the behaviour of some aspect of a Web
> service interaction, much like an environment variable.  For example, a
> reliable messaging SOAP module may specify a property to control the
> number of retries in the case of network failure.  WSDL documents may
> specify the value constraints for these properties by referring to a
> Schema type, or by specifying a particular value.  Properties, and hence
> property values, can be shared amongst features/bindings/modules, and
> are named with URIs precisely to allow this type of sharing.
> 
> --Glen

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