I'm a little confused by this. I was under the impression that for a given portType + operation combination (ignoring the possibility of overloading, for the moment) that there could be several possible bindings. If this is true, in order to uniquely specify an operation you might need to use the binding/port and the portType/operation names (and also deal with the overloading using input and/or output message names). The question is, should it be the portType and operation or port and operation that uniquely specifies the service?
I have found ambiguities in the WSDL 1.1 spec and 1.2 drafts (when I last looked a couple of months ago) that make it difficult to figure this out for myself, although clearly the 1.2 drafts are trying to clean up these issues. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Nirmal Mukhi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:17 AM Subject: Re: Using XML to represent web service invocation. Hello Paul, You do need the port type in addition to the operation name to resolve the operation, since operation names can certainly be duplicated in different port types. WSDL also allows operation overloading within a port type, so you ...
