Registry Interface namespaces

[Ray Plante]

Hey Matthew,

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Matthew J. Graham wrote:
> In the latest iteration (Nov 22) of the WSDL, searching and harvesting 
> have been split into different namespaces...

> Do we actually lose anything by tieing all requests and response to the 
> RegistryInterface namespace?

As you mention in your query, modularity is indeed what you lose.  I 
personally consider this important because harvesters and harvestees are 
not always the same people.  With separate namespaces, a change in the 
search interface does not affect publishing-only registries.  

Code-generating toolkits handle the multiple namespaces transparently, so 
developers that use them shouldn't need to worry.  (Axis, for example, 
will even go off and fetch referenced WSDL accessed via an import.)  If, 
one the other hand, you are not using such a toolkit (you've been moving 
away from them, correct?), then yes, you need to pay closer to attention 
to this detail (as well as others not related to namespaces).  

Given the current volatility in this interfaces,  I would recommend 
keeping this separation until we see a broader call to do otherwise.  

cheers,
Ray