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Re: Traditional RPC

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: Traditional RPC
• From: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:52:03 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C738E1C.F396FA27@p...>
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On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:53, you wrote:

> Agree 100%.
> That's what I'm talking about. WSDL needs to support that.

Wikkid!

>
> > ... if those issues can be handled in another system that's
> > orthogonal to WSDL.
>
> What system? If WSDL is for defining web services and a web service is
> composed of multiple dynamically created and destroyed data objects with
> methods then WSDL needs to describe their interface.

Right - there isn't such a system, no, but I think there needs to be one, and 
I think it's not the end of the world to modularise it into 'WSDL' and 
something higher level that talks of the interactions between them :-)

> > Not necessarily - this depends on the terms of your contract with the
> > service provider!
>
> Fine. The standards should not be biased in favour of terms of service
> that make it such that it is difficult to get your information out.

Yup.

> Fine, so what value is XML-RPC providing? Raw HTTP is doing all of the
> work. You've got another layer in there to no avail.

All it's providing is a middle ground... handling a common usage pattern, if 
you will.

> And how do I specify it in WSDL? What's the point of a language designed
> to allow static type annotations if I'm switching back and forth between
> the statically typed, predictable world and the world of strings and
> dynamic binding?

Bloody strings and dynamic binding - the bane of my life!

>
>  Paul Prescod
>

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    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>

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