Re: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services

Mark,

I don't think we ever came to this agreement. As many of us tried to explain
to you, a generic intermediary has as much visibility into a SOAP message as
a hardcoded intermediary. (We did agree that hardcoded intermediary are
pretty pointless.)

Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
To: <www-ws@w3.org>
Cc: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services

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>
> In a recent thread here, I believe it was agreed that a SOAP
> intermediary hardcoded to have specific knowledge of a given WSDL file,
> had better visibility into the interactions between clients and servers
> using that same WSDL file, than did a generic SOAP intermediary, or a
> SOAP intermediary hardcoded to some other WSDL file.  That's exactly the
> kind of increase in visibility that using an application protocol
> provides.
>
> MB
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