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

[Martin Senger]

> 
> WSDL is just an agreed upon way of represeting a service interface
>
   But you need AN agreed way. So pick up one... And because the services
registered by Moby are Web services, the WSDL is more than reasonable. Or
say loudly that it is not the case, that the services do not need to be
web services. This is a bit frustrating - not to be sure what are the
basic principles.

> In MOBY (current architechture) the interfaces are described in 
> ontologies,
>
   What do you mean by that? AFAIK the current Moby is defined by Perl
interfaces. I do not know aht you mean by ontologies in this context.

> 
> WSDL is not a magic bullet, and I am loathe to start leaning on it too 
> much.
>
   Fine, but say it soon. I am willing to change some of our services to
fit into Moby paradigm - but I still need some mantinels which are stable.
As I said above one stable thing can be a clear answer if Moby services
are web services, or not (or sometimes yes and sometimes not :-)).

   Martin

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