Re: Definitive version of the VOTable schema for web services

From: Pierre Didelon <pdidelon-at-cea.fr>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:15:49 +0200

Paul Harrison wrote:

>
> On 2008-08 -01, at 15:37, Phillip Warner wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
>
> only with conventions that are specific to Spring (ie. not standard,
> not interoperable) see first para of section 3.4
>
> http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/sites/1.5/reference/html/tutorial.html#tutorial-service-contract
>
>
> Paul.

... so I hope that VOTable will remain as it is, an open interoprable standard to facilitate devellopers life
who construct useful and marvellous tools like TOPCAT, Aladin, VOPlot an so-on
and never taylored to be used preferentuially in automatic/clicked engeneering
where generated code can never be safe nor robust and doubtfullly useful for longterm.

-- 
Pierre
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