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SOAP Contract Language

Description

Much like SDL, the SOAP Contract Language is designed to expose the capabilities of a service, but also goes much farther. Microsoft has published the SCL specification with the following comment, We published the SCL specification so we could solicit broad feedback from the industry. We'll update the public toolkit to use SCL once the specification takes into consideration the feedback we're going to get and is in a reasonably stable state. Until then it (the toolkit) will continue to use a form of SDL. Because of the extended capabilities of SCL, it will replace SDL once it matures. In addition to describing a service's capabilities, SCL goes much further by defining the actual contract by which endpoints (the server and the client) communicate. This contract contains both a description of the endpoint and the messages it will accept, and optional orchestration information that describes the flow of messages between endpoints.