[ogsa-wg] RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and WS-Addressing WSDL Binding

Mark Morgan mmm2a at virginia.edu
Tue Oct 11 13:00:31 CDT 2005


All I mean to imply is that WS-Naming v. 1.0 should and must be bound by the
tooling limitations which are projected to exist at the time that that
version of the specification is made public.

-Mark 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Maguire_Tom at emc.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:53 PM
> To: mmm2a at virginia.edu; ogsa-wg at ggf.org
> Cc: ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org; tuecke at univa.com; 
> David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com
> Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and 
> WS-Addressing WSDL Binding
> 
> That may be true at the moment. But when the WS-Addressing - 
> WSDL Binding spec is done (or shortly there after) that 
> should not be true.  Let me put it this way; if we have an 
> EPR per protocol address we have failed miserably.  
> 
> I am sure you are not implying that the Naming architecture 
> should be bounded by the current toolings limitations.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Morgan [mailto:mmm2a at virginia.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:57 PM
> To: Maguire, Tom; ogsa-wg at ggf.org
> Cc: ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org; tuecke at univa.com; 
> David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com
> Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and 
> WS-Addressing WSDL Binding
> 
> My experience has been that available tooling (Microsoft and 
> Java) doesn't support Address lines that aren't URLs.  Am I 
> wrong about this?
> 
> -Mark 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-ogsa-wg at ggf.org] 
> On Behalf 
> > Of Maguire_Tom at emc.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:49 PM
> > To: ogsa-wg at ggf.org
> > Cc: ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org; tuecke at univa.com; 
> > David.Snelling at uk.fujitsu.com
> > Subject: [ogsa-wg] RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and WS-Addressing 
> > WSDL Binding
> > 
> >  
> > As promised at the F2F in Boston I have started a thread of 
> discussion 
> > on the subject line.  I have reposted the thread to the 
> this mailing 
> > list
> > (ogsa-wg) in the hope that broader distribution will spur 
> debate and 
> > discussion.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maguire, Tom
> > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 4:51 PM
> > To: Maguire, Tom; David.Snelling at UK.Fujitsu.com
> > Cc: ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org; tuecke at univa.com
> > Subject: RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and WS-Addressing 
> WSDL Binding
> > 
> > Dave you mentioned in one of your question: 
> > 
> > >>It appears that in the example that either the 
> was:Address and the 
> > >>soap:address must be the same or that the wsa:Addess is 
> irrelevant.
> > >> I can't really believe the former so let's assume the later.
> > 
> > It's not that the wsa:adddress is irrelevant it is that the 
> > wsa:address is logical as opposed to physical.  This is 
> precisely why 
> > I think we can use it....
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org
> > [mailto:owner-ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org] On Behalf Of Maguire, Tom
> > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:35 AM
> > To: David.Snelling at UK.Fujitsu.com
> > Cc: ogsa-naming-wg at ggf.org; tuecke at univa.com
> > Subject: RE: [ogsa-naming-wg] WS-Names and WS-Addressing 
> WSDL Binding
> > 
> > Dave,
> > 
> > I'll do my best to answer your questions inline below.  Let 
> me caution 
> > this thread a bit.  The WSDL Binding specification is not 
> complete and 
> > is clearly still evolving...
> > 
> > >>It appears that in the example that either the was:Address and the
> > soap:address must
> > >>be the same or that the wsa:Addess is irrelevant. I can't really 
> > >>believe
> > the
> > >>former so let's assume the later.
> > 
> > Yes, I believe that is the intent.  As I mentioned in my note it is 
> > 'interesting' that they are the same.  My guess is that makes 
> > implementations that are not <wsa:metadata> aware able to cope.  I 
> > would expect that would be a 'best practice'.
> > Not sure what the implications would be for us if that were the 
> > case...
> > 
> > >>With a wsdl11:definitions section present, the wsa:Address
> > field must
> > >>be
> > superseded
> > >>by the soap:address chosen by the client. I assume that the 
> > >>soap:address gets copied to the was:To field in the soap header.
> > 
> > Ultimately you are correct however I expect that the 
> specification of 
> > that
> > linkage would not be quite as explicit as that.   
> > 
> > >>There is no linkage in the wsdl11:definitions to connect the 
> > >>wsa:Address
> > to it.
> > 
> > No
> > 
> > >>Q1) What happens with more than one wsdl11:definitions
> > section in the
> > >>was:Metadata?
> > 
> > I have no idea what that would even mean.  I presume they 
> would limit 
> > that in the spec.  As I said it is still evolving.
> > 
> > >>Q2) In this case can we put any old junk in the wsa:Address? 
> > >>i.e. leave it out (except that the scheme saus [1..].
> > 
> > <wsa:address> is required and I would assume that at a 
> minimum there 
> > would be a statement of 'best practice' where the 
> <wsa:address> is the 
> > 'default'
> > address.
> > 
> > >>Q3) If we use the wsa:Address as an Abstract Name, how do
> > we know that
> > >>is
> > what
> > >>we are doing? We could  subtype the EPR to create a WS-Name
> > as we do
> > >>now, and bind the usage of the was:Address to type of the WS-Name.
> > 
> > I would use a wsi conformance claim on both the wsdl and 
> the EPR.  The 
> > wsdl claim would be that the service is capable of generating 
> > WS-Names.  The EPR claim would be that this EPR adheres to the 
> > additional semantics of a WS-Name.
> > 
> > >>Q4) I thought WS-Addressing was NOT about naming or identity. 
> > >>How will this use (abuse) of the wsa:Address go down with
> > the W3C folks?
> > 
> > I think this is a misread on your part W3C objected to 
> identity being 
> > encoded in something OTHER than a URI (IRI); in the 
> WS-Addressing case 
> > they objected to ReferenceProperties.  Ultimately 
> ReferenceProperties 
> > were merged with ReferenceParameters which weakened (removed) the 
> > identity semantic.  I think they would be extremely happy 
> with the use 
> > of a URI as an identifier :-).
> > 
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
> > On 7 Oct 2005, at 12:41, Maguire_Tom at emc.com wrote:
> > 
> > > This will be a fairly long note to discuss the current
> > incarnation of
> > > WS-Naming Abstract Names.  An Abstract Name has the following
> > > properties:
> > >
> > > *	The name MUST be globally unique in both space and time.
> > > *	The name conforms to URI syntax ("Uniform Resource Identifiers
> > > (IRI): Generic Syntax", RFC 3987).
> > >
> > > Let's leave aside the first point, for the time being, 
> and focus on 
> > > the second point.  The abstract name is an IRI which is an 
> > > internationalized URI.  Currently this means that a WS-Name
> > abstract
> > > name would look like
> > > this:
> > >
> > > <wsa:EndpointReference
> > >     xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/03/addressing"
> > >     xmlns:name="http://ggf.org/name">
> > >         <wsa:Address>http://tempuri.org/example</wsa:Address>
> > >
> > > <name:AbstractName>urn:guid:B94C4186-0923-4dbb-AD9C-39DFB8B54388</
> > > name:Abstr
> > > actName>
> > > </wsa:EndpointReference>
> > >
> > > There are several built in assumptions in this particular
> > rendering of
> > > an
> > > abstract name.   First, there is an assumption that the 
> > <wsa:Address>
> > > is the
> > > [destination] MAP of the EPR.  Second, the AbstractName
> > does not need
> > > to flow on the wire when 'dereferencing' this EPR.
> > >
> > > It may be ok for the AbstractName to not flow on the 
> wire.  I will 
> > > leave that discussion to others.  Let's focus on the first 
> > > assumption...
> > > If you assume that the <wsa:Address> is NOT necessarily a 
> physical 
> > > address
> > > (URL) then it is essentially the same as an AbstractName 
> minus the 
> > > "MUST be globally unique in both space and time" property 
> described 
> > > above.
> > >
> > > This is essentially how 'Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL
> > Binding'  
> > > defines
> > > a <wsa:Address>.  An example from that specfication:
> > >
> > > <wsa:EndpointReference
> > >     xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/03/addressing">
> > >   <wsa:Address>http://example.com/fabrikam/acct</wsa:Address>
> > >   <wsa:Metadata>
> > >     <wsdl11:definitions
> > targetNamespace="http://example.com/fabrikam"
> > >         xmlns:fabrikam="http://example.com/fabrikam"
> > >         xmlns:abc="http://www.abccorp.com/"
> > >         xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
> > >         xmlns:iiop="http://www.iiop.org/"
> > >         xmlns:wsdl11="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
> > >       <wsdl11:import namespace="http://example.com/fabrikam"
> > >           location="http://example.com/fabrikam/fabrikam.wsdl"/>
> > >       <wsdl11:import namespace="http://www.abccorp.com/"
> > >           location="http://www.abccorp.com/abc.wsdl"/>
> > >       <wsdl11:service name="InventoryService">
> > >         <wsdl11:port name="ep1" binding="abc:soap-http-binding">
> > >           <soap:address
> > location="http://example.com/fabrikam/acct"/>
> > >         </wsdl11:port>
> > >         <wsdl11:port name="ep2" binding="abc:iiop">
> > >           <iiop:address location="..."/>
> > >         </wsdl11:port>
> > >       </wsdl11:service>
> > >     </wsdl11:definitions>
> > >   </wsa:Metadata>
> > > </wsd:EndpointReference>
> > >
> > > And also from 'Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding'
> > >
> > > 	In particular, embedding a WSDL service component
> > description MAY be
> > 
> > > used by EPR issuers to indicate the presence of alternative
> > addresses
> > > and protocol bindings to access the referenced endpoint. The 
> > > alternatives are provided by the different endpoints of the
> > embedded
> > > service.
> > >
> > > It is interesting to note that in the above example that the 
> > > <wsa:address> matches the soap:address location.
> > > So this says to me that the <wsa:address> is essentially 
> equivalent 
> > > (or at least could be) to an abstract name.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
> > >
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