Hi Paul,
Nice, I got my bullet points :-)
Thanks,
-Arun
On 5/19/10 8:54 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi Arun,
>
> On May 15, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Arun Gupta wrote:
>
>> WADL is defined as "provide a machine process-able description of such
>> HTTP-based Web applications."
>>
>> Other than showing a description of the resources, please help me
>> understand how it is used in Jersey.
>>
>> Which machine is processing it ?
>>
>
> Clients, those same clients that consume the service :-) WADL is
> essentially runtime meta-data that clients may use.
>
> For example NetBeans uses the WADL to generate a simple HTML-based test
> client.
>
> IIRC it is also used in JDeveloper as well.
>
> The experimental hypermedia support that Santiago implemented uses WADL
> to determine how to serialize parameters for client requests, thus can
> reduce coupling between client and server (uses WADL as a sort of
> form-based representation).
>
> Some are using WADL combined with XSL to provide online documentation.
>
> In the future i think we can better integrate WADL more with hypermedia
> to describe typed links.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Paul.
>
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