Resolving endpoints

[Guy Rixon]

Hi,

currently, CGI services store direct-access URLs in the registry and SOAP
services store URLs that produce their WSDL. To use a SOAP service via the
registry a client has to look up its WSDL URL, download the WSDL and parse out
the endpoint address.

Can someone remind me whether this situation is supposed to continue, or ware
we going to allow direct-access URLs for SOAP services with WSDL URLs moved to
a separate metadatum?

If we're not supporting direct-access URLs for SOAP services, can we add a
registry function to obtain such a URL from an IVORN by handling the WSDL
inside the registry service? It seems wasteful to put the WSDL-handling code
in every registry client instead of in a handful of registry
service-implementations.

Cheers,
Guy

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