April 06, 2004
Why WSDL Is Not Yet Another Object IDL
Savas Parastatidis links to an article he co-authored about this subject.
I strongly believe that there actually is a difference between SOA-style Web services and Distributed Objects, and I even share some of Savas's thoughts. But I don't think WSDL is a good candidate for making this point, since with its reliance on XML Schema it's probably the least flexible and most static part of the whole Web services architecture.
Update: more here
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Trackback from Dave Orchard's Blog at Apr 7, 2004 10:08 PM:
Jim Webber and Savas Parastatidas wrote a nice article about why WSDL is not IDL. It's been interesting to watch the fall-out from that, such as Jim Webber's followup. Stefan Tilkov echoes my complaint about Schema 1.0 limitations, though WSDL...
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