WS approach to distributed application development

Question

Criticize the WS* approach to distributed application development.

Answer 1

It is overly complex, frequently ambiguous, and occasionally not consistent. In practice, tool-generated WSDL documents are terrible to read and the source of half of all interoperability issues (and I am not referring to any XML Schema components). It’s too my position that WSDL is being employed as a crutch by web service vendors and developers, even although the functionality it gives must be wholly needless.