[MOBY-l] further thoughts on atomic services & service description

[Mark Wilkinson]

Martin Senger wrote:
>    Just one comment on breaking a service into more atomic services: Each
> of such atomic services would need its own WSDL - so the service provider
> needs to maintain more services with more WSDLs 

Only if that is the service-providers responsibility.  Under the 
existing MOBY architechture it is not... which is *precisly* why it was 
designed this way.


>    And one more thought: If we decide to go with registering a "path" of 
> atomic services we should not invent a new language or format for it, we 
> should take an existing one, for example a reasonable candidate would be 
> WSFL (a language for describing workflows of web services).

I agree entirely.  However, we first need to see what our service paths 
look like... since we don't even have an imaginary one at the moment :-)

M

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