Exposing additional service metadata with WS-Discovery in WCF 4.0
Posted by: Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax),
on 17 Sep 2010 |
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WS-Discovery is not only a mechanism for discovering service endpoint addresses at runtime, but also a way to query for specific service information and metadata. If you look at it from another standpoint, WS-Discovery provides access to a decentralized short-lived service catalog that is available as long as the services are running. It is decentralized because every service expose their own metadata, unless you use a WS-Discovery managed proxy, which act as an intermediary and central location...