General Web services in Registry schema

[Guy Rixon]

OK...should we make it a rule for IVO services with WSDL that they respond to
?WSDL ? (A service with no WSDL would be allowed to 404 to this query.)

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Wil O'Mullane wrote:

> That is what I remember also.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:46:56PM +0100, KevinBenson wrote:
> > Actually I don't remember this extra URL element to point to the wsdl (not
> > that I can remember), but we said that a "?wsdl" could be added to the end
> > of the service endpoint  (hence the accessURL for a WebService type) and
> > that would get the wsdl.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org]On Behalf Of
> > Guy Rixon
> > Sent: 11 May 2005 15:08
> > To: Paul Harrison
> > Cc: Registry List
> > Subject: Re: General Web services in Registry schema
> >
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > I agree. We (AstroGrid) used to use the accessUrl element to point to the
> > WSDL
> > and this caused confusion due to assymetric with HTTP-get services. At the
> > exec meeting in Pune, it was suggested that accessUrl should formally be
> > defined to be the service endpoint, not the source of WSDL, and that we
> > ought
> > to have a different element to given the URL for the WSDL. I think we did
> > the
> > former change but never reissued VODataService with the extra element for
> > the
> > WSDL.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Guy
> >
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > It seems to me that the WebService type in VODataService-0.5 is
> > > incomplete - it would seem to be missing any content elements. The
> > > obvious element that it is missing is a reference to the WSDL document
> > > that describes the service.
> > >
> > > Another topic for discussion in Tokyo?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul Harrison
> > > ESO Garching
> > > www.eso.org
> > >
> >
> > Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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>

Guy Rixon 				        gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
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