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JJJ - 04 Feb 2005 20:53 GMT

I'm currently designing some new WSE2 built services and a portal. I'm using
the WSE2 implementation of WS-Addressing because I need more complex
exchanges that the simple Request\Response model permitted by ASMX etc.

We have our SoapSender\SoapReceiver endpoint code running as simple Windows
Services. I know I can also host the endpoints in IIS using ashx files (I
think??) - Which is best? Are there any best practice papers on this subject?

We also need to generate and publish WSDL. Because we're not using ASMX, I
am sacrificing the auto-gen of WSDL ie (http...?WSDL). The messages
exchanges between my services are defined in XSD files etc. What is the best
practice here? Is there a cool tool I can use to generate a WSDL document?
What's the best way to then publish that document to my consumers?

Many thanks in advance.

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William Stacey [MVP] - 04 Feb 2005 20:49 GMT

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JJJ - 04 Feb 2005 21:09 GMT

Many thanks.

So basically I can use wsewsdl2.exe to create my wsdl doc.

But what is the best way to publish this doc? Is it considered best
practice for instance to make it available on a different url through IIS?

Also - do you have any guidelines on the SoapSender\Reciever question I asked?

Thanks again.

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William Stacey [MVP] - 04 Feb 2005 23:11 GMT

It is published. The users just do the same thing to get their own proxy
using the web service address (and -name if required). If you wanted to get
fancy, I guess you could have a job run every day or something and dress it
up into an nice HTML doc that is a link on your help page or something. You
could also just publish examples using your own proxy in different code
versions with additional text help.

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Softwaremaker - 05 Feb 2005 02:21 GMT

On another note,

WSE 2 does have a pretty neat trick for requesting WSDL over any protocol.
If you send in a SOAP message with an action of
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wse/2003/06/RequestDescription

<Envelope>
<Header>
<Action>
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wse/2003/06/RequestDescription
</Action>

you get the WSDL back in the response soap body. This is something like
WS-MetadataExchange

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Dilip Krishnan - 04 Feb 2005 23:23 GMT

Hello JJJ,
If you host it in a IIS you get all that comes with it. Load balancing
etc. the "?wsdl" should still work if you host it in a windows service..
(might need to check on that).

HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
http://www.geniant.com

> I'm currently designing some new WSE2 built services and a portal.
> I'm using the WSE2 implementation of WS-Addressing because I need more
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Sidd - 04 Feb 2005 23:36 GMT

That is correct. If you have a SoapService inside IIS, then basically *any*
operation, as long as it is not and POST will return you the wsdl for that
service.

Thanks,

Sidd [MSFT]

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JJJ - 05 Feb 2005 07:19 GMT

Thanks everyone - very helpful.

> That is correct. If you have a SoapService inside IIS, then basically *any*
> operation, as long as it is not and POST will return you the wsdl for that
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