Hi


Are these mutually exclusive?

WSDL 1.1 is indeed pretty limited in what it can do

Or, is it common to have RESTful services that
actually have a WSDL definition?

Have a look at this blog entry :

http://www.keith-chapman.org/2008/09/restfull-mashup-with-wsdl-20-wso2.html

I guess for CXF be able to generate document descriptions of the (JAX-RS) 
services, doing some
WADL support on the server side (auto-generation) would be a good step forward. 
WADL is simple and effective language. WSDL 2.0 is a
much more complex 'beast', though more flexible too, it will let you do REST 
over TCP-IP if you'd like :-). For CXF evolving as a
strong platform for combining different types of services doing some (minimal) 
WSDL 2.0 can be a possible option. I reckon if there
were now a WSDL2.0 aware client runtime wishing to talk REST to CXF, then it 
woudn't be too hard just to auto-generate some WSDL 2.0
instance off the JAX-RS-enabled resource class, in a request CXF JAX-RS 
filter...

Cheers, Sergey

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