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Re: [Fwd: talking about harness issues]

From: Bobby Bissett - Javasoft <Robert.Bissett_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:55:33 -0400

>
> I think what needs to happen is for the client MEX implementation in
> wsimport to use the same transport pipe implementations to talk to the
> service.

This is the part (well, one of the parts) that is confusing me. Does
wsimport use a transport pipe? From what I've seen, it just uses a
document builder, gives it the address of the wsdl, and off it goes. If
there were a transport layer in wsimport, that would be great for what
you'd like to do.

And, yes, the MEX communications are all soap based. Though there's one
exception -- a mex response can contain a location element like this:

<mex:MetadataSection
     Dialect='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
     Identifier='http://services.example.org/stockquote/schemas'>
   <mex:Location>
     http://services.example.org/stockquote/schemas
   </mex:Location>
</mex:MetadataSection>

The location element means to just make an http GET call to that
location for data.

Cheers,
Bobby