W3C Workshop on Web of Services Report
The W3C has released a report about the results of the Workshop on the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, which was held in February.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
The W3C has released a report about the results of the Workshop on the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing, which was held in February.
Thomas Steiner, author of the REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages and can generate code from WADL, answers InfoQ's questions.
Following up on the debate of REST vs. WS-* discussed here last week, it is interesting to note a debate about "contracts" for RESTful services that has been picking up pace over the last few days.
Many REST API description languages exist but none have seen major uptake; recently WADL has been getting more attention. Yahoo!'s Mark Nottingham is maintaining a stylesheet to generate docs from WADL. Google's Thomas Steiner unveiled plans for a Google project for generating language specific clients from WADL, & generateing WADL from documentation. Sun is adding WADL tools to SDWP.