Resolving endpoints
Ray Plante
rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Jun 28 08:47:34 PDT 2004
Hi Guy,
There is still ambiguity about what AccessURL points to in the case of Web
Services. In VOResource v0.9, it is defined to point to the WSDL;
however, there was some desire for it to point to the endpoint for the
reasons you described. In the NVO registry, we didn't have a lot of
Web Services defined (and that we critically depended on for our
apps/demos), so it we were living with this ambiguity while we figured out
what made sense.
There are still some issues to address related to our discussion of
standard WSDL definitions that will affect this question. For example,
would we need or allow different parts of the interface to have different
endpoints? If so, which one should be the "accessURL"? Should the other
endpoints be placed in the registry as well? (probably so; then
additional metadata are needed.) I'm doing some experiments now with
Axis to test some of the ideas we've batted around.
cheers,
Ray
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