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Christian Weyer

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Christian Weyer is an independent Microsoft MSDN Regional Director and expert for Web services.
Sometimes praying really helps: metadata, metadata, meta - meta - metadata ... exchanged Posted: Mar 5, 2004 8:38 AM
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Eat it. The missing piece is here: WS-MetdataExchange. Now policy based services can rock the world - I can instantly imagine a ton of unbelievable stuff that gets enabled by the WS-Policy family and WS-MetadataExchange. There is currently no link or page on MSDN, but expect it to pop up here soon.

A new WS-* specification from BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP defines messages to retrieve specific types of metadata associated with an endpoint: Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange).

The purpose of the specification is to "define a bootstrap mechanism for metadata-driven message exchange," as required in the Web Services Policy Framework (WS-Policy), in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1, and in W3C XML Schema. Supporting SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 Envelopes and WSDL 1.1 description, the WS-MetadataExchange specification "leverages other Web service specifications for secure, reliable, transacted message delivery." The associated namespace URI is http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/02/mex.

"Specifically, WS-Policy describes the capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of Web services; WSDL 1.1 describes abstract message operations, concrete network protocols, and endpoint addresses used by Web services; W3C XML Schema describes the structure and contents of XML-based messages received and sent by Web services. To bootstrap communication with a Web service, this WS-MetadataExchange specification defines three request-response message pairs to retrieve these three types of metadata. One retrieves the WS-Policy associated with the receiving endpoint or with a given target namespace, another retrieves either the WSDL associated with the receiving endpoint or with a given target namespace, and a third retrieves the XML Schema with a given target namespace. Together these messages allow efficient, incremental retrieval of a Web service's metadata."

Ah, BTW: the big family is united again: IBM, BEA, Microsoft, and SAP

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