----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brittenham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: Re: Proposal to contribute WSIL4J to Apache Axis
> Steve, > > We do intend to keep working on WSIL4J for awhile. As I mentioned in my > initial proposal, one of the things that we'd like to do is add a WS- > Inspection interface to Axis (if everyone thinks that this is a good idea). > > I'm not sure if this addresses the issue you raised, but a WS-Inspection > document may contain references to other WS-Inspection documents. So, the > document at myserver/inspection.wsil could be just a list of references to > other WS-Inspection documents. You do this using the <link> element. Here > is an example of the document located at myserver/inspection.wsil. > > <inspection ...> > <link referencedNamespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap. > org/ws/2001/10/inspection/" > location="http://myserver/myapps/inspection.wsil"/> > <link referencedNamespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap. > org/ws/2001/10/inspection/" > location="http://myserver/moreservices/inspection.wsil"/> > ... > </inspection> > > Does this address your issue? yes, it does pretty much. That way I can put one in at the toplevel that points to my webapps. I am putting together a proposal/implementation of a very simple multicast IP based endpoint resolution mechanism, intended for LAN use; client mcasts out a URI to resolve with, all listeners wait 0-1000mS then respond with any URLs they have that map to that URI. The idea would be for public endpoints to register themselves and then any local lan things could find them. I need to sort out the aspects of the protocol vis-a-vis chattiness and scaling; I dont want all the LAN traffic of UPNP, for example. This would tie in with WSIL because you could issue an mcast to ask for all implementations of "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2001/10/inspection/ and get back a list of public WSIL docs, that you can then examine in detail. But if I wanted to find all implementations of the nap://chemical+brothers schema that described an on-lan MP3 player, my app could just ask for it, without having to do WSIL or (worse) UDDI stuff. thoughts? -steve
