Re: Definitive version of the VOTable schema for web services

From: Phillip Warner <pwarner-at-noao.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:37:08 -0700


On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:16:34 +0100
Paul Harrison <Paul.Harrison-at-manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 2008-08 -01, at 00:29, Matthew Graham wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > This approach works fine except when the WSDL document itself is
> > autogenerated by a toolkit.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
>
> Ah - but automatic generation of WSDL is evil - 'contract first'
> development is the only way to have any hope of interoperability....

Ah - but you can still eat your cake and have it too!

  http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/sites/1.5/reference/html/why-contract-first.html

With Spring-WS, you have 'contract-first' development, but it will generate your WSDL for you.

Whether your new VOTable standard is sufficiently defined for Spring-WS to properly generate the WSDL is yet another question.

Phil Received on 2008-08-01Z16:37:11