Re: [sca-bindings] [BINDINGS-163] WS binding support for ?wsdl shouldbe non-normative

Logged as: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BINDINGS-163

    

    -Eric.

    

    On 6/7/11 4:03 AM, Simon Holdsworth wrote:
    
      
      Target:
         sca-wsbinding-1.1-cd04.pdf
      

      

      Description: 
      

      

      BWS20029 is currently a SHOULD:
      

      

      Any service hosted by an SCA runtime with one or
        more
        web service bindings with HTTP endpoints SHOULD return a WSDL
        description
        of the service in response to an HTTP GET request with the
        “?wsdl” suffix
        added to that HTTP endpoint URL. [BWS20029]
      

      

      Which implies this is an optional
        feature
        of the WS binding spec.  In the interest of simplifying the
        conformance
        requirements for the binding we ought to consider whether this
        really needs
        to be optional.
      

      

      Proposal:
      

      

      Make support for ?wsdl
        non-normative
        by replacing BWS20029 with the following text:
      

      

      SCA runtimes can allow access to
        WSDL
        descriptions for services with web service bindings, either
        directly using
        the common practice for HTTP endpoints of sending a GET request
        to that
        endpoint with the "?wsdl" suffix, or by publishing the WSDL to
        a shared repository.
      

      

      Remove BWS20028.
      

      Update the test case document
        test assertions
        as appropriate for the removal of these statements.
      

      

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        Simon Holdsworth

      
      

      

      
      

        

        
      
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