I’m busing to build a simple RESTful webservice for my thesis, maybe this is a dome quetion but I just want to know, do you really need an interface (WADL or WSDL) to create clients? Likely by SOAP webservice! Thanks
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I’m busing to build a simple RESTful webservice for my thesis, maybe this is a dome quetion but I just want to know, do you really need an interface (WADL or WSDL) to create clients? Likely by SOAP webservice! Thanks
A SOAP web service is typically not RESTful. If you’re providing a SOAP API: yes, you need to provide a WSDL file. This enables consumers of the web service to generate consumer code from the WSDL.
Whether or not WADL is really needed for a RESTful service is less clear-cut:
You do need to document the service in some way if anyone is going to be able to use it. Personally, I think there are better ways to document a RESTful API than WADL.