RE: definition of web services in "web services architecture"

In practice, are not virtually all existing web services currently using
WSDL 1.1 actually identifed by a URI?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joao Paulo Andrade Almeida [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:28 AM
To: 'Hugo Haas'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: definition of web services in "web services architecture"



> From: Hugo Haas [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: woensdag 4 december 2002 16:14
> To: Joao Paulo Andrade Almeida; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: definition of web services in "web services architecture"
> 
> I would add that I don't think that WSDL 1.1 prevents the 
> identification of a service with a URI. It says[1] that a service is 
> "[a collection] of network endpoints, or ports", which are each 
> identified by a URI.
> 
> It just is silent about whether a service would be identified by a URI

> or not, and therefore does expose one.

That was my point: a WSDL 1.1 service description does not 
describe by itself a "web service" (using the definition given 
in the reference architecture).

regards,
Joao Paulo