Re: Usefulness of WSDL
"Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> Tue, 13 November 2007 13:33 UTC
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Subject: Re: Usefulness of WSDL
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On 11/12/07, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > 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. I hear you, but the alternative seems to be a mandate that it not ever be used, which AFAIK, there's no precedent for. I'd rather its use be evaluated on a case-by-case basis during the review process. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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