Web Application Description Language

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The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is an XML -based file format that describes HTTP -based applications as they predominantly appear on the WWW and in intranets . WADL primarily supports the description of REST-based web services and takes on a role for this class of applications that is comparable to WSDL for SOAP- based web services.

The aim of WADL is to describe services on the Internet (or any other IP -based network) in machine-readable form, thereby simplifying the development of applications in the style of Web 2.0 .

Web links

• WADL homepage on java.net
• Current specification from WADL (PDF, 176 kB)
• Do we need WADL? Blog post by Joe Gregorio about the need for WADL