SOAPAction alternatives

Sorry to bring up an 'old chesnut' subject once again, but ..., my
organisation is moving ahead with the implementation of web services which
are accessible over a number of transport protocols, and we feel the need
for a protocol indpendant mechanism for identifying the requested service
and operation which ultimately will be used to identifying the internal
target implementation. The vast majority of message exchanges use SOAP in
document/literal form.

We already support ebXML MS and thus the SOAP Header elements which convey
this intent, but, not all of our calling clients use ebXML and neither do we
necessarilly want to force them to do so.

If there's a unilateral groan of 'oh not again' I would be happy to be
re-directed to threads which have previously discussed this one :-)

Cheers

Fraser.


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