MEX Publishes Again

We published a new version of WS-MetadataExchange today.  The new MEX (as it is affectionately called) generalizes the pattern that was introduced in the first version (GetSchema, GetWSDL, GetPolicy) to a single verb (GetMetadata) that is parameterizable.  A service returns various MetadataSection`s representing the service`s metadata.  One nice feature is that a MetadataSection may include a MetadataReference which may be an EndpointReference - this lets the MEX service control how much data it wants to return in-line.  In order to "dereference" the MetadataReference EPR, you may issue a "Get" message (which is defined in WS-MetadataExchange), but logically this is exactly the same operation as the WS-Transfer Get operation.  Now it all starts to hang together...

Also, with the last couple of spec publications we switched over to PDF formats... you`re welcome :-)