Re: Usefulness of WSDL

["Mark Baker" <distobj at acm.org>]

On 11/12/07, Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net> wrote:
> On 10/11/2007, at 7:26 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
> > That said, if some spec author wants to use it, I don't see any
> > need to prevent them from doing so, so long as the emphasis of the
> > spec is on the protocol.
>
> I disagree. The interop and interpretation problems with WSDL make it
> too much of a liability to use in a spec; it will cause more problems
> than it solves.
>
> Even if you plaster warnings that it's non-normative and that the
> spec wins, people will still use it to generate their code, and
> they'll be stuck with the data binding and interface modelling mess
> that results.

I hear you, but the alternative seems to be a mandate that it not ever
be used, which AFAIK, there's no precedent for.  I'd rather its use be
evaluated on a case-by-case basis during the review process.

Mark.
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