Hi,
Per the WG last comment on WIMS Protocol spec last week (for examples
of WSDL definitions and actual SOAP messages), I've been working on WSDL
for the WIMS Protocol - following the excellent examples in the recent
WS-Polling submission from IBM to W3C.
Good News - conveniently, I recently released the WIMS Message schema,
which is most of the work - the WSDL itself is very small by comparison.
Bad news - we all repeatedly agreed to make the non-standards-track
bindings (using WSDL/1.1 and SOAP/1.1) _optional_ for compatibility and
make standards-track bindings (using WSDL/2.0 and SOAP/1.2) _mandatory_
to implement.
But, the W3C site now says (at http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/):
"Below are the targeted publication dates for the WSDL 2.0 drafts:
Second Last Call
June 2005
Candidate Recommendation
October 2005
Proposed Recommendation
Early 2006"
PSI/1.0 fudged on this and standardized a SOAP/1.1 binding described in
WSDL/1.1 (calling them 'defacto industry standards' - which is true, but
they're still not interoperable).
So the WIMS/1.0 Protocol spec will have to:
(a) Use the above SOAP/1.1 fudge for normative bindings;
<or>
(b) Wait for the approval of WSDL/2.0 (now a working draft) by W3C;
<or>
(c) Use SOAP/1.2 for normative bindings
and INFORMATIVE references to the WSDL/1.1 W3C Note
and INFORMATIVE examples of WSDL/1.1 for the SOAP/1.1 binding.
My apologies for not realizing this problem earlier.
Cheers,
- Ira
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com