I have to agree with Glen .. I thought we came up with the module
term because of the SOAP Module analogy too!

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Axis2] Modules - Random thought


> But the point is that Axis Modules are precisely the implementation of
> SOAP Modules!  "Block" in SOAP parlance refers to a single header
> element, which is too fine a granularity for the thing we're talking
> about here.  A typical Module may process lots of different header
> blocks, as well as affecting WSDL generation, understanding policy
> assertions, etc.
>
> -1 to the changed terminology.
>
> --Glen
>
> P.S.  Curious - why would you want to avoid the SOAP Module terminology?
>
> Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> > I thought of trying to avoid the soap module terminology. my 2 cents,
> > I think block will work for both #1 and #2.
> >
> > -- dims
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:21:36 +0600, Srinath Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> >>1) if the module is just a packaing of the Handler for usability
> >>purposes am +1 for name it blocks
> >>2) I think Module is littel bit more than that, for an example I would
> >>like to have ability to have Service ref a module and have it enabled
> >>as the j2ee does.
> >>e.g.
> >><service name="foo">
> >>      <module ref="Authentication"/>
> >></service>
> >>then the service foo has the authentication enabled.
> >>
> >>In the context of #2 I feel module make more sense .. thoughts?
> >>Thanks
> >>Srianth
> >>
> >>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:43:09 -0500, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >>
> >>>Can we call them "blocks"? (instead of modules?)
> >>>
> >>>-- dims
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>

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