WS-Discovery

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

I note that there is a discovery spec called WS-Discovery up on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-discovery.asp

This bears no relation whatsoever to the one we have in our repository; 
that can remain as prior art in case they try and trademark the name.

Re: WS-Discovery

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> Should we move the discovery code to WS-FX and use that as a starting point for a WS-Discovery
> implementation?

My ws-discovery is 100% different from theirs. The MS one is kind of a 
multicast SOAP request with a response sent to the caller via telnet 
'for security reasons'. Mine was a UDP packet containing the XML 
equivalent of an SLP payload and automatic integration with Axis -all 
registered services would responsd to queries for implementations of 
their uri.

The existing Axis code would migrate most cleanly into an SLP library, 
because all you would do is change the marshalling from XML to 
hand-encoded binary packets, sending only ASCII URLS out instead of UTF-8.

It may 'only' be boring old SLP, but that is the same discovery 
mechanism built into all those JetDirect cards out there; no known 
security problems and well known performance characteristics.




> thanks,
> dims
> --- Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com> wrote:
> 
>>I note that there is a discovery spec called WS-Discovery up on MSDN
>>
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-discovery.asp
> 
>>This bears no relation whatsoever to the one we have in our repository; 
>>that can remain as prior art in case they try and trademark the name.
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/

Re: WS-Discovery

[Davanum Srinivas <di...@yahoo.com>]

Should we move the discovery code to WS-FX and use that as a starting point for a WS-Discovery
implementation?

thanks,
dims
--- Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com> wrote:
> 
> I note that there is a discovery spec called WS-Discovery up on MSDN
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/ws-discovery.asp
> 
> This bears no relation whatsoever to the one we have in our repository; 
> that can remain as prior art in case they try and trademark the name.


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Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/