It has been four years since Sun’s Marc Hadley put forward his proposal for a Web Application Definition Language. Since the arrival of the WADL, we have seen the API Economy boom and an almost overwhelming swell towards REST and away from SOAP. Given that the WADL was intended to be the RESTful answer to SOAP’s WSDL you might have expected that the volume of WADLs would be rising in equal proport
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