Is WSDL too hard?
November 19th, 2002 by gregr
Modeling without WSDL. Mark Ericson has some thoughts on Interface design with WSDL, I agree with him, WSDL is far to cumbersome to work with by hand, the only way to be remotely productive is to use some sort of tool, personally I like Omniopera, YMMV. [Simon Fell]
I’ve heard oh-so-many people talk about how difficult WSDL is to use, and how it’s too hard to create by hand. Well, I don’t buy it. Yes, it’s not exactly intuitive. But for 95% of the WSDL one might need to create, you could create a boilerplate template and just fill it in. When doing this, most of the work will be generating your schemas, which there are plenty of tools for (although I usually write schemas by hand). It’s cryptic, it’s strange, and you might not understand it all at first…but it’s not all that hard.
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