On Aug 11, 7:09 pm, Meredith Gregory <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> i was under the same impression, but then read a couple of IBM comparison
> articles and a WSO2 blog and it seemed that the WSDL 2.0 was gaining ground.
> Further, the tooling for WSDL, with integration into all the major IDE's,
> has been significantly more developed than the WADL tooling. However,
> yesterday i tried a simple example with a schema-valid WSDL 2.0 xml document
> for a simple service with 1 operation and the Apache Axis2 tool barfed on
> the fact that the schema pointed to in the document was for WSDL 2.0 and not
> WSDL 1.1 -- despite the fact that they claim on their home page to support
> WSDL 2.0.
>
> For the record, WSDL -- as much as i hate it -- was not meant to be tied to
> a transport. As a matter of fact, neither was SOAP. You should be able to
> effect these over any transport, HTTP included, and presumably in more than
> one way. WADL is tied to HTTP. This means its scope is considerably more
> limited.

Very true. But then again in reality how often are we seeing WSDL/SOAP
bound to something else then HTTP? ... in some respects this seems a
false selling point of SOAP.

Assuming an enterprise application where let's say we can escape HTTP
realm, probably RMI/IIOP, JINI, JXTA etc. even proprietary on the wire
representation etc.becomes valid choices.

>
> Best wishes,
>
> --greg
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Timothy Perrett
> <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hey Greg,
>
> > Im not sure about WSDL2.0, but my understanding was that WADL
> > (https://wadl.dev.java.net/) was making the most ground in the REST
> > service description arena.
>
> > Cheers, Tim
>
> > On Aug 10, 10:58 pm, Meredith Gregory <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Lifted RESTafarians,
>
> > > Has anyone tried the Apache Axis 2 WSDL 2.0 support? i'm looking at this
> > > page<
> >http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/1_2/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-pl..
> > .>and
> > > it claims they have a maven plugin to generate the stubs for a WSDL
> > > 2.0
> > > REST binding. i'm going to play around with it to wrap BNF Converter in a
> > > RESTful service; but, i was wondering if anyone else had experience with
> > it.
>
> > > Best wishes,
>
> > > --greg
>
> > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Viktor Klang <viktor.kl...@gmail.com
> > >wrote:
>
> > > > Hello Jacek,
>
> > > > actually, if I were you I'd consider implementing your webservices as
> > REST
> > > > services and then just have your SOAP stubs call your rest services.
> > (If
> > > > you're not using anything voodooesque)
>
> > > > Then you have the benefit of using the existing plumbing as much as
> > > > possible, while still maintaining your SOAP interface as well as a
> > potential
> > > > migration path to something non-WSDL.
>
> > > > (I am severely biased by having to work with SOAP, which has scarred me
> > for
> > > > life)
>
> > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jacek Furmankiewicz <jace...@gmail.com
> > >wrote:
>
> > > >> I was reading through the Lift book PDF and it mentions only REST-
> > > >> style web services.
>
> > > >> In our case, we need to look at re-implementing a set of existing SOAP
> > > >> web services (is there anything like 'wsdl2scala' anywhere?).
>
> > > >> I would appreciate any best practices and suggestions for implementing
> > > >> SOAP web services in the context of a larger Lift app (and Scala in
> > > >> general).
>
> > > > --
> > > > Viktor Klang
>
> > > > Rogue Scala-head
>
> > > > Blog: klangism.blogspot.com
> > > > Twttr: viktorklang
>
> > > --
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> > > 1219 NW 83rd St
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>
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>
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>
> --
> L.G. Meredith
> Managing Partner
> Biosimilarity LLC
> 1219 NW 83rd St
> Seattle, WA 98117
>
> +1 206.650.3740
>
> http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com
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