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• Subject: Re: What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?
• From: Charles Woerner <cwoerner@e...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:03:22 -0800
• Cc: michaelc.champion@g...
• In-reply-to: <e3a5cb2c05033009505aea47da@m...>
• Organization: Ensenda, Inc.
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On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 09:50, Michael Champion wrote:
> In *both* REST and SOA there is a very large hairy wookie of an
> unanswered question screeching for attention: What are the semantics
> of the resources / services?  In practice this is handled explicitly
> or implicitly by human understanding in both styles. In theory both
> could be handled by some sort of formal semantic mapping a la the
> Semantic Web.

Doesn't WSDL + XML Schema answer that question?

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Thanks,

Charles Woerner
Integration Programmer
Ensenda, Inc.

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