unconvinced by WADL

Wednesday, 3 May, 2006

I remain thoroughly unconvinced by WADL. I accept there’s a (current) corporate need to over-describe everything in XML, but quite frankly I’d rather describe my REST resources with HTTP OPTIONS plus extended http headers and/or, preferably, human-readable (and also machine parseable) xhtml, ala microformats.

Interestingly, I find no mention of WADL on rest-discuss. Crappy yahoo search algorithm? Or just “phasers set to ignore”?

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Jason R. Briggs is a writer, IT Architect and developer. He has written for a number of publications, both online and printed, including ONJava, ONLamp, JDJ, and JavaWorld, and is a former Contributing Editor for Java Developer’s Journal. He currently lives in the United Kingdom, but has divided his time during the last 15 years between New Zealand and the UK — which, when he thinks about it, is entirely too much time spent hurtling through the skies in a glorified tin can.
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