--- In [email protected], JP Morgenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob, > > A flat file interface is a perfectly acceptable service > interface, > however, using that definition, what separates a protocol from a > service interface?
Hmm. I wasn't aware that protocol needs to be separated from service interface. Isn't protocol *part* of the interface? I guess we should be more precise too--flat file interface speaks only to the message format I guess. How that file is transported is another matter. Perhaps via HTTP. Or FTP. Or by simply dropping the file into a particular directory in any number of ways. -Rob
