Re: Usefulness of WSDL
Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se> Mon, 12 November 2007 11:12 UTC
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These days WS-* is something everyone loves to hate (and often for
good reason). In the case of WSDL I think its good to remember that
WSDL is one of the very few WS* technologies that has been widely
implemented - people do actually use WSDL from perl-based SOAP-
stacks to lookup and call java-based services etc.
As for how much developers _really_ understand technology, I suspect
one would get similar answers as Tim got if one were to ask a set of
programmers about just about any set of technologies for which there
is good tooling available. Those programmers probably was thinking more
about the quality of the tooling than about the quality of the under-
lying technology.
I think it may be interesting to ask why WSDL turns up in IETF specs
but not (say) WS-Policy or WS-ReliableMessaging. My guess would be
that in many cases solutions which started out as simple systems-
integration RPCs (ct-kip-ws may be an example) have grown into
protocols in the sense that they are implemented by multiple vendors etc.
Cheers Leif
- Usefulness of WSDL Lisa Dusseault
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL James M Snell
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL Mark Baker
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL RL 'Bob' Morgan
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL Tim Bray
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL Leif Johansson
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL Mark Nottingham
- Re: Usefulness of WSDL Mark Baker