Macho Macho Man...
Discovery of Web Services
- • DISCO is a Microsoft technology for publishing and discovering Web Services
- • Provides a way to discover and retrieve WSDL description of services on remote machines
- • Only minimal support in PHP
DISCO Example
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<disco:discovery
xmlns:disco="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/disco/"
xmlns:scl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/disco/scl/">
<!-- reference to other DISCO document -->
<disco:discoveryRef
ref="http://localhost/related-services/default.disco"/>
<!-- reference to WSDL and documentation -->
<scl:contractRef
ref="http://localhost/server.php?wsdl"
docRef="http://localhost/interface-docs.html"/>
</disco:discovery>
Confusion, Confusion, Confusion.
MS Says 'The [docRef is the] URL for a XML Web
service implementing the service description specified by the ref attribute.', then
again says 'contractRef has two attributes, ref and docRef, which point to the WSDL
and documentation files for a given Web Service.' They provide examples showing
both on MSDN. (4/20/2003)
