- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:25:22 -0700
- To: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: <oisin.hurley@iona.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3c.org>
Great!
Henrik
>"A SOAP 1.2 implementation that passes all of the tests
>specified in this document may claim to conform to the SOAP
>1.2 Test Suite (insert version number).
>
>Even though the purpose of the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite is to
>facilitate the creation of interoperable implementations,
>conformance to the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite does not imply
>conformance to the SOAP 1.2 specification; there are mandatory
>requirements of the specification that are not tested by the
>suite (as a simple example, that every legal value of a role
>name is accepted, and all illegal ones rejected).
>
>An implementation may be said to be SOAP 1.2 conformant if and
>only if all messages it sends, and all processing it does, are
>correct with respect to the normative requirements of {ref to
>framework and adjuncts}. NOTE: this definition admits special
>purpose implementations, such as those in dedicated
>controllers, which may send and receive only a very limited
>suite of messages; the requirement is that whatever is done be
>done correctly.
>
>Likewise, for the reason noted above, conformance to the SOAP 1.2
>specification does not imply conformance to the SOAP 1.2 Test
>Suite. An implementation may conform to the SOAP 1.2
>specification even if it does not support all capabilities
>tested by the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite."
Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 00:25:55 UTC