Re: Is it a good idea to make your WADL available?

On Aug 31, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

>
> As I've said before, my primary use cases for WADL (and other desc  
> formats) are
>   a) as a design-time aid
>   b) for documentation generation
>   c) for server and intermediary configuration
> and possibly also for stub generation on the server side.
>
> Talking to folks about this, I'm starting to wonder if there are  
> *any* good use cases for sharing your Web description with clients,  
> because doing so risks engendering tight coupling.

I always thought of WADL as kind of "The .h file for my Web app".  I  
think the rewards outweigh the risks. -Tim