Web Services Addressing version interoperability

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Web Services Addressing version interoperability

The Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) support in this product can interoperate with various versions of the WS-Addressing specification.

Supported set of WS-Addressing versions. The table lists the associated namespace, the specification download locations and some details about each specification.

Associated namespace Specification download location Details
http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ W3C final versions of the WS-Addressing core and SOAP specifications.
These specifications are sometimes referred to collectively as the 2005/08 version of WS-Addressing.
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ W3C final version of the WS-Addressing metadata specification.
This specification defines WS-Addressing WSDL extensions and WS-Policy assertions.
For JAX-WS applications, this specification supersedes the http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl specification.
http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR) version of the WS-Addressing WSDL specification.
This is the default namespace used by this product for the WSDL parts of the WS-Addressing specification, for JAX-RPC applications.
For JAX-WS applications, this specification is superseded by the http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata specification.
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/addressing/wsdl http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/ W3C Last Call (LC) version of the WS-Addressing WSDL specification.
Support for this namespace is deprecated.
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/ W3C WS-Addressing Submission specification
This specification is sometimes referred to as the 2004/08 specification. It combines the core, SOAP and WSDL aspects of WS-Addressing in a single specification.

This version of the product interoperates with each of the WS-Addressing specifications that are defined in the previous table. This interoperability results in the following behavior:

Incoming web service messages containing WS-Addressing message addressing properties are appropriately bound to SOAP, and WS-Addressing SOAP elements are appropriately deserialized to their WS-Addressing programming model representations according to the namespace in use.
WS-Addressing programming model artifacts are appropriately serialized into SOAP elements, and the message addressing properties are bound to SOAP according to the namespace in use.
Differing WS-Addressing semantics are adhered to, according to the WS-Addressing version currently in use.

Determine the WS-Addressing namespace of inbound messages

The WS-Addressing namespace of incoming web service messages is the namespace of the first WS-Addressing action message addressing property found. The runtime checks for an action message addressing property of the default namespace. If it does not find an action with the default namespace, it will then search for action message addressing properties for other addressing namespaces in an undefined order. The namespace of the WS-Addressing core specification in use is available to the target endpoint through the message context.

Determine the WS-Addressing namespace of outbound messages

WS-Addressing messages issued from this version of the product adopt the namespace associated with the destination endpoint reference. If this namespace is unknown, the message adopts the default WS-Addressing namespace.
WAS v8.5 provides a proprietary system programming interface (SPI) to change the namespace associated with an endpoint reference to any namespace in the supported set.

The WS-Addressing specification to use

Best practice: In most cases, use the default WS-Addressing specification that is supported by the product. We do not have to undertake any additional actions to use this specification. The following list gives examples of occasions where you must override the default namespace:

When interoperating with an endpoint that does not support the default namespace, for example, an earlier version of the product.

When a namespace other than the default is required. For example, when implementing a specification that uses a level of WS-Addressing other than the default.
The W3C Last Call (LC) version of the WS-Addressing WSDL specification is deprecated. Use this specification only when we are interoperating with WebSphere Application Server 6.1 nodes that do not have fix pack V6.1.0.2 or later. Otherwise, use the W3C Candidate Recommendation version of the specification, or for JAX-WS applications, the WS-Addressing metadata specification.best-practices

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Associated namespace	Specification download location	Details
http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing	http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/	W3C final versions of the WS-Addressing core and SOAP specifications. These specifications are sometimes referred to collectively as the 2005/08 version of WS-Addressing.
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata	http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/	W3C final version of the WS-Addressing metadata specification. This specification defines WS-Addressing WSDL extensions and WS-Policy assertions. For JAX-WS applications, this specification supersedes the http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl specification.
http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl	http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/	W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR) version of the WS-Addressing WSDL specification. This is the default namespace used by this product for the WSDL parts of the WS-Addressing specification, for JAX-RPC applications. For JAX-WS applications, this specification is superseded by the http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata specification.
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/addressing/wsdl	http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/addr/	W3C Last Call (LC) version of the WS-Addressing WSDL specification. Support for this namespace is deprecated.
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing	http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/	W3C WS-Addressing Submission specification This specification is sometimes referred to as the 2004/08 specification. It combines the core, SOAP and WSDL aspects of WS-Addressing in a single specification.