Web Application Description Language (WADL)

Author(s):
Marc Hadley
Report Number:	Date Published:	Available Formats:
TR-2006-153	April 2006	Portable Document Format (PDF) Request Hard Copy
Abstract
This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications that provide access to their internal data using XML. Typically these applications are described using a combination of textual protocol descriptions combined with XML schema-based data format descriptions; WADL is designed to provide a machine processable protocol description format for use with such HTTP-based Web applications, especially those using XML.

Web Application Description Language (WADL)