Best Practice question

[Casey Cox]

I am developing a framework of web services that would be given to my team for future development. One of the things I want to do is have a couple of methods that all future webservices support and implement. What is the best way to enforce this? Should I have a "parent" wsdl that all "child" wsdls will import and support? Is there any other way of doing this?

All help much appreciated, thanks!!

[Peer Reynders]

Casey Cox wrote:One of the things I want to do is have a couple of methods that all future webservices support and implement.

What would be the point? Services are supposed to have non-overlapping functional contexts (Agnostic Context, Non-Agnostic Context). By sharing capabilities, the functional contexts would overlap by default. So your attempt is already against "Best Practices".
However all services are supposed to adhere to the Standardized Service Contract principle. See also this post