I suppose this is one of the most talked about areas in developing a web sercvice, whether to use the code first or contract first. However what you have to rememebr is that all web service developers do not use Java ! There are tons of other ways to implement a webservice and essentially there is no way that you can enforce uniformity among all these programming languages except declaring the WSDL. So in a business perspective what is worth agreeing upon is the WSDL, not the Java interface.
The Axis2 community understands the need for code first developement too, you can expose a class as a web service and there is on going work that aims to add annotation support. However the more extensible and enterprise friendly way is to use the WSDL first.
As I said in an earlier comment also, my intention in this article is demostrating the Axis2 contract first capabilities, not the contrast between code first and contract first. |
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