- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:19:16 -0500
- To: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
- Cc: David Hull <dmh@tibco.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Rich Salz wrote: > Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > > SOAP needs to stand on its own without WSDL. > Is there anyone here who disagrees with this? Well, there certainly have been times recently when I've thought I heard people say words to the effect: we don't need MEPs in SOAP and/or we don't need detail X to be covered by MEPs in SOAP because WSDL will be there to provide the answer. Maybe or maybe not the implication is to suggest an inappropriate dependence of SOAP on WSDL, but I think there is at least a risk that we would inadvertently fail to take enough care in having SOAP stand on its own. As I think I mentioned earlier, even those servers that are themselves built with the help of WSDL benefit from an ability to interact with software (e.g. built in scripting languages) that may not be WSDL-based. Of course, everyone involved needs to agree on the contract, or safely realize that they haven't agreed. The good news is that SOAP provides you pretty good ways of using mustUnderstand and (crucially in this case) binding specifications to check on the level of agreement without necessarily using WSDL. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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