You can also find from Dave's blog where Yahoo Search APIs (RESTful
interface) can be easily represented using WSDL 2.0.
http://www.pacificspirit.com/blog/2005/03/02/yahoo_search_web_service_in_wsdl_20
Is there any plan to integrate apache woden to CXF for supporting WSDL 2.0?
-Arul
Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
Hi,
* REST does not require a WSDL but it could very well use it.
no, it does not and some people in the REST world are concerned that
*any* description language can be harmful - something I not totally
agree with. If WSDL 2.0 were adopted at a wider scale then perhaps
people would describe RESTful services with it too - especially when
doing both WS-* and RESTful services.
* In the REST world, WADL (Web Application Description Language) is more
appropriate than a WSDL.
WADL is geared toward describing RESTful services thus it much simpler
than WSDL. It kind of looks easier on the eye. I like it. It will be
up to a developer to choose. Jersey supports WADL - hope CXF will
support it in some form too. But there's a number of factor which will
actuall determine what description language has to be used, if any
(adoption rate, internal policies, etc).
* A SOAP client could work with a RESTful service implementation.
Why not ? See for ex this blog entry :
http://sberyozkin.blogspot.com/2008/07/rest-and-soap-united-in-cxf.html
It's not the recipe for all cases - there we start with a JAX-WS
server impl and seamlessly upgrade it to do JAX-RS, but it could've
been the other way around. In this case, even WSDL 1.1 can do - for a
SOAP client only. As I said earlier, perhaps it would be possible to
create a WSDL2.0 description for a RESTful JAX-RS service (I'm not
100% sure how SOAP client should behave in the presence of WSDL 2.0
instance with a SOAP binding and web-methods other than POSTs, that
is. would, say, a SOAP client translate some getFoo() request into a
GET with some query params) - and then have SOAP client talking to a
pure JAX-RS server...
Cheers, Sergey
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