- From: Marwan Sabbouh <ms@mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:09:13 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
oops-too late Marwan Sabbouh wrote: > David; > > I thought I run this by you before I forward it to the mailing list. Please > comment. > > I am very concerned with the work taken place on the binding framework. > It seems as if we are creating a layer that sits between the > transport/transfer protocol and the SOAP layer. In my mind, there isn't > a physical layer that is called the binding layer. There isn't a > boundary between SOAP and the delivery protocol. More importantly, there isn;'t > "a contract between SOAP and the > bindings/underlying protocols that SOAP uses", as described in Stuart's email to > Glyn Normington. In my mind the contract is between the SOAP sender and > receiver. WSDL is a good example of such a contract. I invite the TBTF > workingb group to examine it. > > Instead, a Web service that > binds itself to a particular protocol, is then able to receive > messages using that protocol. In this context, aSOAP processor uses the > delivery mechanism specified by this service. I am afraid we are making > it far more difficult than it needs to be. > What am I missing? > > Marwan
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