Dr. Marc J. Hadley is a Java and Web Services Architect at Sun Microsystems. He is currently the specification lead for JSR 311, a Java API for RESTful Web Services and is author of the Web Application Description Language (WADL). Previously Marc represented Sun in the W3C XML Protocol and W3C Web Services Addressing working groups where he was co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 and WS-Addressing specifications. Marc also served as the technical lead for Sun’s participation at the Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) and was co-spec lead for JSR 224 (JAX-WS) at the JCP.
Its been just over two years since the last version of WADL was published and, in the intervening time, a number of issues have accumulated. I've held off...
I've been offline on holiday in the UK for the last couple of weeks and it seems I've been missing out on an interesting debate about whether a description language for RESTful services is useful...
I'm pleased to announce the formation of a new project on java.net for the development of WADL and associated tools: http://wadl.dev.java.net/. The goals of...
In previous entries I've shown how to use the JAX-WS APIs to publish and use RESTful Web services. Up till now I've focussed mainly on XML/HTTP since this is what most services use but JAX-WS can...