Fault-tolerance in web services

[Seetharama Rao Durbha <Seetharamarao.Durbha@SierraAtlantic.com>]

Just a naïve question - fault tolerance in web services - for example,
providing multiple service/soap:address - should that be part of a WSDL/SOAP
client functionality, or should that be a native support provided by the
provider?

I can imagine situation where services are multi-hosted and a particular
provider would like to be able to explicitly identify those locations to the
clients, in case one fails, or even for load-balancing, if that is a
concern.

Thanks,
Seetharama Rao Durbha
Cell : 510-673-1843
Office : 510-742-4228