posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:32 AM
by
Obi
A New Approach to Web Services - Today and Tomorrow
In a Web Services-based world, communication is based on public contracts - the technical and partly semantic description of a Web Service. The most common kind of contract, the technical interface definition, is today usually expressed in the form of WSDL. The possibility to automatically generate these interface documents allows developers to select either a code-first approach or contract-first approach for creating their contracts.
But schema-based contract-first design is in many cases the more interoperable approach as you define the service messages with the XML type system of the SOAP standard, not the type system of any given programming language or platform
Check out the link below for gory details:
http://www.thinktecture.com/WSCF
Cheers,
Obi Oberoi