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The Interpretation of Service Interfaces

As we have discussed in Chapter 1, the realism of the limited scope of this project has constrained us to use Java interfaces in place of WSDL. Java method prototypes however need to be complemented to bridge the semantic gap beetween WSDL and Java. What we mean to imply here, is not the semantical deficiency of the Java interfaces--but rather that the interpretation of those semantics is disparate. As obvious as this statement may seem, Java interfaces presuppose the Java object model. WSDL on the other hand do not assume object-orientation at all--leaving out a particular object meta-model.