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W3C Workshop on Web of Services Report

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SOA
Topics
WS Standards,
XML Databinding,
Web Services,
REST

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.

REST Describe and Compile

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SOA
Topics
REST

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.

Debate: Does REST Need a Description Language?

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SOA
Topics
REST,
Web Services

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.

WADL REST API description language getting some attention

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SOA
Topics
REST,
Web Services

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.