Re: [AXIS2] Questions about MEP

[Ajith Ranabahu]

Hi,
Since you seem to be an enthusiastic guy I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my knowledge.

1) Must all messages in a MEP be exchanged between exactly two
entities? Can a MEP intersect with more than one service?

 Well, There's no such limitation. The MEP talks about the server side of one entity (how many coming in,how many going out and in what order) there's no mentioning about the other entity. Infact when WS-addressing is enabled, the messages can be sent through to many different entities.

2)Is MEP and operation a one-to-one binding?

Yes

3) If the answer of the previous question is negative, can we say a
MEP links multiple operations? Then how a MEP is bound or waved with
multiple concrete operations in one or several service?

The answer is positive :)

4) Also, if the operation and MEP is not a one-to-one binding, the way
to invoke a web services seems to be changed. Before, we invoke a
service by invoking one of its operation; but now we invoke a service
by starting a MEP. Am I right?

Well, an operation and a MEP *is* a one-to-one binding. A given operation can have only one MEP.


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Ajith Ranabahu