On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Stuart Charlton wrote: > WSDL provides very little formality. WSDL just > provides code generation tools guidance on what global > elements to use for operations, bodies, and faults. > In a loosely coupled system, this frankly should be > runtime metadata. This whole edifce, to me, strikes > me as ridiculously brittle. > This reminds me of Steve's "Rating WS-*" post on his blog (http:// service-architecture.blogspot.com/2006/11/rating-ws.html). I had meant to post a comment on there asking about WS-MetadataExchange. I still feel that this spec could be a key enabler, provided we can find some agreement on how various metadata is represented.
-tb
