WS-MeX 1.1
by William (@vambenepe on Twitter)WS-MetadataExchange was updated and republished today. While technically not part of the WS-Management/WSDM convergence effort, this is part of the same wave of consolidation/clarification. This update was described and pre-announced in the white paper describing the Web services management convergence, including the move towards using WS-Transfer’s GET operation. While WS-MetadataExchange doesn’t say anything about this (it doesn’t need to), this move towards using WS-Transfer also means that if the provider and the requestor both support the WS-ResourceTransfer extensions to WS-Transfer they will be able to exchange portions of the metadata rather than the entire thing, in the same way than a management system would retrieve a portion of the representation of a system. This allows better re-use and composition between specifications.
Related posts:
- WS-ResourceTransfer published
- WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-Enumeration and WS-MetadataExchange on their way to W3C
- WS Resource Access working group starting at W3C
- WS-Transfer, its WSDL and its WS-I compliance: the art of engineered uselessness
- WS Resource Access at W3C: the good, the bad and the ugly
- The window of opportunity for WS-Management