Re: Comments - WSDL 2.0 Message Exchange Patterns

At 11:49 AM 6/16/2004 -0400, Amelia A Lewis wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:35:53 -0700
>Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com> wrote:
>
> > Please find below my comments on the WSDL 2.0 Message Exchange Patterns
> > document [1] (dated 2004/02/24).
> >
> > * The draft uses "patterns" and "WSDL patterns" often; suggest either
> > normalising to "WSDL Message Exchange Patterns" or beginning the
> > introduction with "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) message
> > exchange patterns (hereafter, 'patterns')..."
>
>I'd like to take the latter suggestion as an editorial, if that suits
>others.  It means fewer changes, and qualifies as editorial, I think.

+1

> > * It might be advisable to differentiate the MEPs described here from
> > the messages in underlying protocols (to use SOAP terminology); perhaps
> > "Interface Message Exchange Patterns"? (I don't feel strongly about
> > this, just a suggestion)
>
>See archives of the task force for discussion of this.  I'm loath to
>reopen it (David Booth, can you comment?). . . .

I think it would be fine (as an editorial change) to add some verbiage 
explaining that WSDL MEPs are independent of transport, protocol and 
message encoding, and as such they are more abstract than SOAP MEPs, but 
that bindings may map WSDL MEPS to the MEPs of specific protocols, such as 
SOAP MEPs.


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David Booth
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