Re: Usefulness of WSDL

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 12 November 2007 12:58 UTC

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From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Subject: Re: Usefulness of WSDL
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:55:15 +1100
To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
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On 10/11/2007, at 7:26 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
> That said, if some spec author wants to use it, I don't see any  
> need to prevent them from doing so, so long as the emphasis of the  
> spec is on the protocol.

I disagree. The interop and interpretation problems with WSDL make it  
too much of a liability to use in a spec; it will cause more problems  
than it solves.

Even if you plaster warnings that it's non-normative and that the  
spec wins, people will still use it to generate their code, and  
they'll be stuck with the data binding and interface modelling mess  
that results.

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Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/

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Re: Usefulness of WSDL Mark Baker