Repeating just to confirm: there is no interop for the June F2F?
Does anyone want to do any informal interop in a scenario similar to what I described?
Thanks,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray, Bryan P. [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: Mike Clements;
> Subject: RE: [wsdm] Concrete, practical interop question
>
> Mike,
>
> You are probably talking about the WSDM f2f in April as there will not
> be any interop testing for the June f2f.
>
> Your scenario and assumptions about the answers are correct. For the
> April f2f we made a simplifying assumption that one manageability web
> service supports exactly 1 manageable resource. We also
> assumed that we
> did not need to abide by the WS-Addressing rules and did not
> include any
> WSA SOAP headers. Thus, the WSDL described operations that
> pertained to
> 1 manageable resource and a client could assume that messages could be
> addressed exactly as the WSDL specifies.
>
> These simplifying assumptions were made for the purposes of
> the interop
> event and may not apply to the WSDL standards as they evolve.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Clements [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 1:48 PM
> To:
> Subject: [wsdm] Concrete, practical interop question
>
>
> This question pertains to the interop for the upcoming F2F.
>
> C: Consumer: consumer of manageability provider
> MP: manageability provider
> MR: managed resource
>
> Scenario:
>
> C is given an URL to obtain the WSDL for MP.
> From that WSDL, C obtains the URL to invoke calls on the MP.
> C can now make a call to MP.
> But these calls are generic such as "getStatus" and do not explicitly
> mention an MR. And the MP has no operation for C to ask what MRs it is
> managing. So C must already (somehow) know about a MR that MP is
> managing. And C must (somehow) "identify" this MR in its call
> to MP. But
> since operations on MP don't specify MR as a parameter, C
> must identify
> MR in the SOAP header, or URL or something like that.
>
> Here is what I *think* the answers to the questions are:
>
> C assumes that the URL it got from the MP WSDL is unique to one
> particular MR. Thus, C doesn't need to identify a MR in each call,
> because all calls it sends to the MP at that URL,
> automatically apply to
> some particular MR. Thus, C just calls operations on MP without
> identifying any MR.
>
> If that is so, then each MR will have its own unique URL to obtain for
> the WSDL for its MP, and that WSDL will specify a MP URL which is
> specific to that MR.
>
> Is that right?
>
> Michael R. Clements
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