Interesting. I looked at various parts of the SOAP 1.2 and WSDL 1.2 specs (http://www.w3.org/ws/), and found barely an occurrance of the word "profile", with no formal definition.
WS-I has this definition. "Profiles: Sets of Web services specifications that work together to support specific types of solutions." However, it seems to me that WS-I thinks this applies to the Profiles (with a capital "P") it creates. See, e.g., its white paper at http://www.ws-i.org/docs/WhitePapers/200308zapthink-ws-i.pdf. Scott Nichol Do not send e-mail directly to this e-mail address, because it is filtered to accept only mail from specific mail lists. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SOAP mailing list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SOAP mailing list (E-mail 2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:28 AM Subject: definition of "SOAP profile" ?? When I read about protocols being built on top of SOAP (e.g., reliability, security), I often encounter the term "SOAP profile", as in "I am defining a SOAP profile for this new security protocol". Does the term "SOAP profile" have a formal definition? Can anyone explain what this term means? Is is simply a description of the SOAP headers used by the protocol? Thanks, Mark
