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5) the 'uber library of cocoon blocks'. Where do we host it? how to we
manage it? How do we provide the block discovery web service? which
technology do we use: SOAP or REST?
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Please don't write SOAP _or_ REST. REST is an architectural style and can be applied to SOAP as well. In fact SOAP 1.2 allows using GETs....but I am getting OT.
I suggest we consider using WSIL (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsilspec.html) as a way for cob discovery. WSIL is a "simple" XMl format that provides either links to other WSIL files or to service descriptions. Bindings currently exist for WSDL and UDDI - so we would probably have to add a new binding for the COB description file.
We would then place an "inspection.wsil" at the root of cocoon.apache.org and that would then point to the available cob decriptions or to the cascaded WSIL files.
Matthew Langham
