Registry Interface and SOAP versions

[Guy Rixon]

The intention is to follow the WS-I profile for interoperability. Their
current "basic profile" is v1.1, available at

http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1-2004-08-24.html

It says:

"This section of the Profile incorporates the following specifications by
reference, and defines extensibility points within them:

    * Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 [...]"

So yes, SOAP 1.1 please. The timing of a move to SOAP 1.2 would depend on
WS-I.  I'll investigate.

Cheers,
Guy

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Ray Plante wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Matthew J. Graham wrote:
> > What version of SOAP is the Registry Interface WSDL supposed to be
> > supporting?
>
> This certainly needs to be stated explicitly in the RI spec.  When I
> looked into this issue earlier this year, it appeared we were supporting
> 1.1.  Our leading toolkits supported SOAP 1.1 by default.  Furthermore, we
> were using WSDL 1.0 which defines binding only for SOAP 1.1.  Given this,
> it seemed sensible to go with 1.1.
>
> I'm not sure it's prudent to go to SOAP 1.2 while WSDL 2.0 is still in WD,
> unless someone can spell out clearly how 1.2 can be used with WSDL 1.0
> (using the usual toolkits).
>
> > Does this mean that we are only supporting SOAP 1.1? If so, what is the
> > timeline for moving to SOAP 1.2 support, which, after all, has been a
> > W3C Recommendation for over a year and a half?
>
> It would be good to get a statement from the Grid&WS WG on this issue.
>
> cheers,
> Ray
>
>

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