On REST WSDL 2.0 Demo
In response to some comments by me, and perhaps several others, Keith Chapman has recently put together a demo to illustrate that WSDL 2.0 can be used to write RESTful apps. Kudos to Keith for the effort.
However, I can't help but note that this demo illustrates the point I was trying to make then and in my recent posts on linking (On Linking – Part 1, and On Linking – Part 2). If you ignore linking and hypermedia, and are happy to pre-publish all possible URIs in a WSDL (or WADL some such thing), it is not impossible to use SOAP based frameworks for developing POXy REST apps. Now I just need to imagine how many thousands of URIs would I be pre-publishing for this blog if I were to follow this and other POXy demos.