My article "An Introduction to WSIL" was published yesterday. The Web Service Inspection Language (WSIL) is an XML document format to facilitate the discovery and aggregation of Web service descriptions in a simple and extensible fashion. While similar in purpose to UDDI, the WSIL model is more RESTful. In many ways, WSIL is like RSS for Web services. RSS is a file format with pointers to published content that can be syndicated and aggregated. WSIL is a file format with references to published Web services that can be discovered and bound.
It was submitted some time ago, but it quite timely. The recent release of Apache Axis toolkit includes a Java implementation for working with WSIL.
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