- From: Gilbert Pilz <Gilbert.Pilz@bea.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:19:09 -0700
- To: <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>
- Cc: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Ramkumar, In May you raised the following issue (http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/5/cr-issues/issues.html#CR047) against the WSDL 2.0 Candidate Recommendation. This issue was addressed during the June 8th meeting of the working group (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2006Jun/att-0033/200606 08-ws-desc-minutes.html). The consensus of the working group was that, while a Service component that referenced an Interface component that contained no Interface Operation components may not be particularly useful (in that the defined service couldn't actually do anything), neither was it particularly harmful. Some members of the working group thought that there might be cases where someone may want to define such a service as part of a "bottom up" iterative service development process. Given that: A) There doesn't seem to be any real harm in defining a service that doesn't support any operations. B) There may be cases in which someone would like to define such a service. C) Adding checks to ensure that all Service components reference Interface components that contain one or more Interface Operation components requires additional effort in the WSDL 2.0 parser and associated tools. the decision was made to close this issue with no action. If you have any further concerns over this or any other issue, please feel free to bring them to the working group at mailto:www-ws-desc@w3.org. Gilbert Pilz Sr. Principal Technologist Office of the CTO BEA Systems Inc.
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