- From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:51:13 -0000
- To: <ygoland@bea.com>, <mgudgin@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <ryman@ca.ibm.com>, <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Yaron i was moved by your passion for this subject, and so have been thinking a bit more about the load-balancing of WSDL. i now think this is less of a generic problem with URIs and more of a specific problem with HTTP. I'd suggest that a 'little-guy' could publish the WSDL and any imported/ included documents not as http:// but under some other more P2P like scheme which could implement the balancing to an array of resources available over HTTP or whatever. Unfortunately such an interoperable load-balancing transport doesn't exist now, but i don't think that's the fault of WSDL, or a problem to be solved in WSDL 2.0. As for the big-guy, little-guy argument you mentioned in last night's call, i'm slightly mystified given that fetching the WSDL is usually a one-off cacheable activity - the endpoint of service itself would still be slashdotted and i'm not sure that's a problem to be solved in this WG either. Paul -- Paul Sumner Downey Web Services Integration BT Exact -----Original Message----- From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Yaron Y. Goland Sent: 18 March 2004 03:54 To: Martin Gudgin Cc: Downey,PS,Paul,XSJ67A C; ryman@ca.ibm.com; www-ws-desc@w3.org Subject: Re: WSDL Import/Include Locations There are two goals in this area I think WSDL needs to achieve: Goal #1 - Location Redundancy Goal #2 - Load Balancing It is clear now to me from the comments on the list that Goal #1 can be achieved today by WSDL as is. But I am still concerned that Goal #2 cannot be reasonably achieved.
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