Re: [xfire-user] Document style best practices

[Adam Kramer]

I want to clarify, document-style requires one root element in the 
soap-body, but it doesn't mean you can't send different messages on 
different calls that get dispatched to different methods in the service.....

Adam Kramer wrote:
Document-style doesn't call for one single root element.  Messages 
(and supporting schema defs) are most often designed on a per method 
basis. If you are designing the entire message that gets dispatched 
(e.g. CreateThisRequest, UpdateThatRequest) to the method on receiving 
it, using the Bare parameter style is preferred, else the with wrapped 
parameter style, the method name will be used to wrap the method 
parameters in the service description.  If you are designing a service 
that just accepts command strings (and possibly other arbitrary data), 
then does something according to the particular command, then perhaps 
a single method is appropriate. Hopefully I understood the question.

Adam


Denis Goeury wrote:
We are currently designing a new web service (and its XML Schema) which
is intended to execute a set of commands like "create this", "update
that"... Should all these commands be sent under a single root XML
element and therefore only require a single method in XFire's service
class? What's the most common way to design/implement this type of
service?

Thanks in advance,

-denis