Re: Web service definition
Mark Baker <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:22:15AM -0400, Christopher B Ferris wrote: > > > Mark, > > You aren't helping the process by simply tearing down. Suggesting > improvements > on the proposal would be far more productive. Chris, not only are we on a break where substantive decisions cannot be made, I believe I am helping the process by suggesting we incrementally improve upon something that was painstakingly constructed (surely you haven't forgotten the "definition wars"? 8-). > I would suggest that we should try to improve upon what we agree is a > flawed > definition (that which is currently documented in the Requirements doc) > taking > Geoff's proposal as a start. > > Given your feedback, I would offer the following amended definition: > > Definition: A Web service is a software application identified by a > URI, whose interfaces and bindings are defined and described > using XML artifacts. This definition can be discovered by other > software > applications which may then interact with the Web service, through > the exchange of XML based messages via internet protocols, in a > manner prescribed by its definition. This is definitely an improvement, but IMO, it now says pretty much what the existing one says. Is that what you intended? What specific value-add do you feel that this definition provides over the existing one? MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. [email protected] http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com