Thanks for the info :-)

//Vince


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Axis 1.1 and WS-Interoperability


Vincent Carpentier (LMC) wrote:
>   Axis 1.1 and WS-Interoperability
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Just had a quick question. Will Axis 1.1 respect WS-I basic profile?
> 

only if it respects us :)

Axis 1.1 will *not* respect the profile, and you cannot expect it to as 
it is (a) a draft and (b) not an official standard by a standards body 
like the IETF or the W3C. Nor, until there is a test suite, can 
compliance be tested and asserted with any rigour.

Future versions of Axis will fully support SOAP1.2, and no doubt strive 
to come close to WS-I basic, but if you want 100% compliance then you 
will have to roll up your sleeves and contribute code.

Axis people do look at the spec, and we also discuss things on 
SoapBuilders. The latter is where interop is forged.

WS-I basic is, well, political: someone dictates that doc/lit is the 
future, that WS-Attachments (DIME not SwA) is the way to attach files, 
without the same open membership and voting that the W3C offers. So 
wherever W3C specs and WS-I specs come in to conflict, to date, we 
follow the W3C.

-steve

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