RE: is operation/@pattern optional?

You don't have to use the pattern if you have a single input or a single
input and output message is how I remember things.


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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 Amelia A Lewis
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:45 PM
> To: Sanjiva Weerawarana
> Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> Subject: Re: is operation/@pattern optional?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:27:34 +0600
> Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> > For some reason I recall that we made operation/@pattern optional
> > (using the heuristics I had proposed for how to compute it for
> > certain patterns). However the spec says its required!
> >
> > Am I hallucinating?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> There was strong opposition to using those heuristics.  I just wrote a
> couple of paragraphs reiterating those arguments, but I guess I'll spare
> you that, on mature reflection.  :-)
> 
> We made the labels of messages optional.  The pattern URI is required,
> in all cases.  Order of input and output elements in the operation
> element is not significant.
> 
> Amy!
> --
> Amelia A. Lewis
> Senior Architect
> TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc.
> alewis@tibco.com

Received on Monday, 18 October 2004 18:09:57 UTC