Re: Web service definition
Geoff Arnold <[email protected]>
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On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 09:05 AM, Christopher B Ferris wrote:
> Hmmm... I hadn't thought that my proposal only addressed how discovery
> takes place. In fact, I had thought that there shouldn't be much
> specificity
> in addressing how discovery takes place.
>
> Allow me to try again with a slight edit to my previous proposal:
>
> 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. These applications may then interact with the
> Web
> service, through the exchange of XML based messages via
> internet
> protocols, in a manner prescribed by its definition.
>
> Again, I don't think that we necessarily want to narrow the
> possibilities
> of how the description/definition is discovered.
Next thing you'll be proposing standard LDAP schemas for WSDL! Anyway,
this looks OK. A couple more tweaks:
(1) Lose the "via".
(2) Drop "exchange", since it would seem to disallow one-way interaction
patterns.
(3) Change "This definition" to "Its definition" for grammatical
precision.
("Its" refers back to the service; "This" has no clear referent.)
Definition:
A Web service is a software application identified by a
URI, whose interfaces and bindings are defined and described
using XML artifacts. Its definition can be discovered by other software
applications. These applications may then interact with the Web
service in
a manner prescribed by its definition, using XML messages conveyed by
internet protocols.