My experience is that WSDL-based approach is more efficient when people try to expose legacy application of similar nature. Doing good RESTful design over complex legacy API is not easy and for vast majority of developers it's faster to 'map' legacy operations to WSDL with minimal modifications. And if you add available tooling...

If the WSDL-based code generation is well done then such code survives reasonable (backward compatible) interface changes. There is nothing wrong with this - except that the generated code is often bad... ;-)

Radovan


On 5/25/06, patrickdlogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> use plain old XML for some things and SOAP and WSDL
> for some other things

I have seen in practice several times teams building SOAP and WSDL
solutions where an HTTP and URI approach would have had several more
advantages.

A *big* problem to me is that vendors, et al. promote the WS-*
approach and then people find WSDL-based code generation is so
convenient (at first) that developers don't even *think* about the
HTTP and URI approach and what might be lost or duplicated as a result.

So one response might be "do both". Another response might be "start
with HTTP and URI's. Do something additional or instead if the need
arises."

-Patrick









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