- From: Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:57:27 -0400
- To: "Jean-Jacques Moreau" <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Cc: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>, Herve Ruellan <ruellan@crf.canon.fr>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Jean-Jacques Moreau writes: >> Wouldn't this add a dependency on WSDL? I don't think we should go there. An emphatic +1. One of the very important things about SOAP RPC messages is that they are to a significant degree self describing. This is a great importance for use of SOAP in dynamically typed languages, for which use of WSDL is often inappropriate. It's highly desirable, IMO, if I can inspect a SOAP RPC message and tell by looking only at that message "this is a call on a method named X with arguments named A1, A2, .. (or supplied by position, which I can determine from the use of the array construction). I believe we have this today. Similarly, I think it is important to be able to understand and RPC response without reference to WSDL. I am concerned that proposal for void returns does not have this self describing characteristic. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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