Mark Baker wrote: > > It's not a myth, RESTful systems do not need WSDL. It doesn't need > any description languages in fact. It needs forms: information sent
I think WADL folks, Sam Ruby and Leonard Richardson all disagree with you on that. > I don't see what security & caching have to do with scalability. Are > you talking about REST or HTTPS? Caching is a key part of the scalability architecture of HTTP. However, that only works for HTTP and not HTTPS .. right? > I don't follow the "Lie: RESTful services have a uniform interface" > argument, but it's prima facie incorrect because they do by > definition. Did you look at the next page? Note I said RESTful *services* .. the URIs of the service are most certainly part of the *interface* of the service. Thereby, every RESTful *service* has its own custom interface. WADL appears to agree 100% as that's what WADL is describing. I hope we don't drop down to a REST vs. WS-* religious war again on this! Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
