Web Services

SOAPy (1826)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 10, 2002)

wsdllib.py (3202)

May be included in future 4Suite release.

References: lloyd@lancaster.lib.pa.us (Feb 10, 2002), mal@lemburg.com (Feb 15, 2002)

Licensing? (3319)

IBM Open Source License (3324)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 10, 2002)

Best way to define input/output types? (3220)

Stick to ZSI's type objects (3226)

References: mal@lemburg.com (Feb 15, 2002)

How to link wsdllib.py with ZSI type objects? (3236)

Wrapper application (3241)

Take a list of method names, their input/output type objects, and URL for method invocation, and spit out WSDL file.

References: mal@lemburg.com (Feb 15, 2002)

Licensing is compatible (3248)

References: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Feb 15, 2002), rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 15, 2002)

Not human readable/writeable (1608)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 10, 2002)

Opposite approach of IDL (1786)

In CORBA, IDL is written by hand and language bindings are generated. With WSDL, it's reversed.

References: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Feb 12, 2002)

People want to convert legacy apps into services (1795)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 13, 2002)

What's preventing this? (1619)

Cut and paste repetition (1632)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 11, 2002)

<import> tag meant to prevent copy and paste (1643)

References: mal@lemburg.com (Feb 11, 2002)

Necessary because of multiple levels of WSDL (1664)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002), rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 11, 2002), paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

Are all these levels necessary? (1672)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

Do they all belong in a single spec? (1677)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

XML Schema as abstract type description language (1694)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

Older IDLs simpler for RPC-oriented SOAP (1702)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002), rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 12, 2002), paul@prescod.net (Feb 12, 2002)

XMLP WG rationale (1749)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 12, 2002)

Can't handle multiple parties (2105)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 13, 2002), rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 13, 2002), paul@prescod.net (Feb 13, 2002)

Alternatives? (2419)

Web Services Operations Language (2424)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Static descriptions of message formats are good (2433)

References: nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr (Feb 20, 2002), uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Feb 20, 2002)

Web Resource Description Language (3380)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Supersedes Web Services Operation Language (3392)

First-class concepts of resource, representation, method, input, output (3398)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Methods are HTTP methods (3407)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Inputs/outputs like HTTP inputs/outputs (3413)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Includes rough proposal for API (3420)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Statically typed (3428)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 19, 2002)

Examples? (3436)

"RESTifying the Matisse interfaces" (3441)

References: akuchlin@mems-exchange.org (Feb 20, 2002)

Split into Implementation and Interface spec (1724)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

Should be semantically easy to read/write (1730)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

Get rid of "abstract" layers? (1761)

References: rsalz@zolera.com (Feb 12, 2002)

Layers should be as abstract as IDL (1770)

Right now, they're both more and less.

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 12, 2002)

First class concepts of array and struct (1739)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 11, 2002)

IDL already a decent abstract IDL (1776)

References: paul@prescod.net (Feb 12, 2002)