Help! The WS-* vs. REST Debate Has Been Hijacked By People Who Want To Have Logical Discussions About Actual Real World Issues!
A call to arms.
IBM Web services guru predicts WSDL future
From 2002: “On this latter specification, Sutor is emphatic: web services are defined by whether they are described in WSDL.”
Myth: RESTful Web Services Don't Need an Interface Definition Language
Dare weighs in on the usefulness of description languages in REST-based design and seems to conclude that Uniform Interface != Description Language and that simple discovery ( style) is the appropriate comparison.
Lying Through Their Teeth: Easy vs. Simple
Steve Vinoski compares IDL as used w/ CORBA/DCOM with WSDL as used by WS-*. It’s interesting that IDL served as more than just a description for machines. Humans used IDL as spec text and built services accordingly, just like REST :)