Help! The WS-* vs. REST Debate Has Been Hijacked By People Who Want To Have Logical Discussions About Actual Real World Issues! —
A call to arms.
tomayko.com
05:12
IBM Web services guru predicts WSDL future —
From 2002: “On this latter specification, Sutor is emphatic: web services are defined by whether they are described in WSDL.”
theregister.co.uk
19:55
Do we need WADL? —
Ka-pow!
bitworking.org
10:00
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
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
addsimplicity.com
15:59