Christian on Contract-First Development
Christian blogs about WsContractFirst v0.3, a new tool that generates Web Service code from an existing WSDL file. The tool runs neatly within Visual Studio .NET - easy as right-clicking on a WSDL file in Solution Explorer.
I'm interested to see how the area of contract-first development matures. Personally, I'm a big proponent of XSD (Data) first development for Web Services, but I'm "waiting in the wings" to see what the momentum will be around WSDL (Contract) first development. I've talked to a few customers about this and would say that there is a general acceptance that hand-coding WSDL today is too difficult. There are a few tools that raise the abstraction a little, but I think there needs to be a stronger shift (along with some education) to get the masses behind this.
Still, this is a neat tool. Something that's also neat is the thinktecture shirt that Christian gave me at the recent Connected Systems airlift. I'll save the picture of that for another post...