16 Jan 2008

Myth: RESTful Web Services Don't Need an Interface Definition Language —

Dare weighs in on the usefulness of description languages in REST-based design and seems to conclude that Uniform Interface != Description Language and that simple discovery ( style) is the appropriate comparison.

25hoursaday.com   23:01

13 Jan 2008

Lying Through Their Teeth: Easy vs. Simple —

Steve Vinoski compares IDL as used w/ CORBA/DCOM with WSDL as used by WS-*. It’s interesting that IDL served as more than just a description for machines. Humans used IDL as spec text and built services accordingly, just like REST :)

steve.vinoski.net   21:29