Davanum Srinivas' weblog

We are working on some code for Indigo Interop PlugFest and came across this gem of a policy assertion.

<wsp:Policy wsu:Id="BasicHttpBinding_IMtomTest_policy">
	<wsp:ExactlyOne>
		<wsp:All>
			<wsoma:OptimizedMimeSerialization 
				xmlns:wsoma="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/optimizedmimeserialization"/>
			<wspe:Utf816FFFECharacterEncoding 
				xmlns:wspe="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/encoding"/>
		</wsp:All>
	</wsp:ExactlyOne>
</wsp:Policy>
<wsp:UsingPolicy/>

Point #1:
Seeing "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/" one would Utf816FFFECharacterEncoding and OptimizedMimeSerialization are part of WS-Policy Specification. But guess what, they are *NOT* in the WS-Policy spec.

Point #2:
Even more interesting is there are just 2 google hits for OptimizedMimeSerialization:

• http://fisheye.cenqua.com/java.net/viewrep/~raw,r=1.10.4.1/jax-ws-sources/jaxws-ri/rt/src/com/sun/xml/ws/wsdl/parser/WSDLConstants.java
• http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/devprof/devicesprofile.pdf

The first one is SUN's source code for JWSDP and the second one is a joint spec with Intel et al.

So how are we mere mortals supposed to understand the meaning of these 2 assertions in Indigo/WCF...go figure :)