[NEW ISSUE] Normative statement about @BindingType in POJO spec is notenforceable

Raiser:        
       Mike Edwards

Target:        
       sca-javaci-1.1-spec-cd02-rev1.doc

Description:

Section 8.2.8.1 deals with the @BindingType
JAXWS annotation.

It makes this statement about the component
type of a POJO containing the annotation:

"If the JAX-WS @BindingType annotation
is used, then the <binding.ws/> subelement has its @wsdlElement attribute

set such that the WSDL binding used
at runtime matches the value of the @BindingType annotation."

Unfortunately, a @wsdlElement attribute
must point at a WSDL document.  There is not necessarily a WSDL

document present for the attribute to
reference.  It cannot be expected that the SCA runtime will create
such

a document "on the fly" (it
may not be possible in some environments) with the result that this statement
is not

implementable or enforceable.

Proposal:

Simple proposal:

Remove the whole subsection 8.2.8.1

Complex proposal:

Add a new attribute to <binding.ws/>
element, called @bindingType, which contains a URI representing the required

binding type. (This requires cooperation
of the bindings TC) Then change 8.2.8.1 to indicate that it is this new
attribute

which gets its value set when @BindingType
annotation is present.

Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.

Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.

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