I just got back from TechEd and had a chance to catch up on posts, including
Dare's recent follow up to
my last post about contracts and metadata. He points out that WSDL/XSD is no substitute for good documentation and I totally agree. In fact, this was kind of a theme at the BOF on contracts that
Aaron and I hosted in Orlando. A contract is an agreement expressed in a number of ways. First and foremost, there is at least a prose document - “the Word doc” - for want of a better term. Some aspects of what the Word doc says are captured in machine-consumable form (XSD, WSDL, WS-Policy, XSLT, etc), but many are not. We should never mistake those expressions of our contract for the contract itself.
Posted
Jun 09 2005, 04:07 PM
by
tim-ewald