General Web services in Registry schema

[Wil O'Mullane]

Thats what I thought we agreed - ?WSDL is supposrted by AXis and .NET and 
others should follow suit. But If some Astro-Grid Axis Services do not
actually work with ?WSDL then perhaps we need to revisit that.


On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:37:35PM +0100, Guy Rixon wrote:
> 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
> Institute of Astronomy   	                Tel: +44-1223-337542
> Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA		Fax: +44-1223-337523