{"id":684,"date":"2006-08-16T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/16\/ws-metadataexchange-updated-its-all-about-the-resource-baby\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T06:22:55","slug":"702888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/16\/702888\/","title":{"rendered":"WS-MetadataExchange updated: it&#8217;s all about the resource, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Oh joy!<BR>The WS-MetadaExchange specification has been updated. You can find the new spec here: <A href=\"http:\/\/specs.xmlsoap.org\/ws\/2004\/09\/mex\/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf\">http:\/\/specs.xmlsoap.org\/ws\/2004\/09\/mex\/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf<\/A>.<BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Notable differences:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>The use of specifications from the WS-Management suite, namely <A href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Submission\/2006\/SUBM-WS-Transfer-20060315\/\">WS-Transfer<\/A>. Now the first method of retrieving metadata is treating them as WS-Transfer resources<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The chance of embedding metadata directly in endpoint references<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The request-response protocol for metadata retrieval is still there, but is now optional<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The bootsrap of the metadata retrieval operation is now explicitly addressed (and the decision of forcing mex endpoint on HTTPS in CardSpace falls squarely in that domain, I&#8217;d say)<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>In general, the&nbsp;idea of representing everything as a resource holds tremendous potential for managing the service; while the spec does not mandate it (everything revolves around Get), you may think of using WS-Transfer&#8217;s Put for actually pushing info to the services under your governance.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hopefully in the next days I&#8217;ll find more time to get an&nbsp;deeper look to it. Check it out \ud83d\ude42<\/P><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh joy!The WS-MetadaExchange specification has been updated. You can find the new spec here: http:\/\/specs.xmlsoap.org\/ws\/2004\/09\/mex\/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf. Notable differences: The use of specifications from the WS-Management suite, namely WS-Transfer. Now the first method of retrieving metadata is treating them as WS-Transfer resources The chance of embedding metadata directly in endpoint references The request-response protocol for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-ws","category-windows-cardspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}