Registry Interface and SOAP versions

[Andre Schaaff]

... and concerning the WS-I profiles, the SOAP 1.2 integration seems not to be
clearly defined  ...
probably nothing to expect before a few (or more !) months

André 

Quoting Guy Rixon <gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk>:

> 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
> >
> >
> 
> Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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