RE: WSA constraints
"Champion, Mike" <[email protected]>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:51 AM > To: Champion, Mike > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: WSA constraints > > > For example, there's an implicit requirement that Web > services will work > between companies, which requires the property of "visibility" (unlike > working within companies, which doesn't). We need to identify which > constraints of the WSA induce this property. > I think this is reasonable, but don't follow completely. The way I envision it, the REST constraints might identify a "bootstrappable" (maybe what you mean by "visible") way for Web service providers and consumers to do business in a very loosely coupled way. Of course, that meets some of our requirements, but doesn't describe the most typical scenarios in which Web services are actually used today. Thus, we could/should document the REST constraints as one aspect of the WSA, with appropriate language about it MAY be the optimal approach when its assumptions are met. > Examples would be the easiest and least controversial way to do this. > But I'd like to defer this until we've documented some constraints. Perhaps, but induction of what you're proposing from examples would help too.