RESTful Services - WSDL Equivalent

Question

I have been reading about REST and SOAP, and understand why implementing REST can be beneficial over using a SOAP protocol. However, I still don\'t understand why there isn

Answer 1

The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is an XML vocabulary used to describe RESTful web services.

As with WSDL, a generic client can load a WADL file and be immediately equipped to access the full functionality of the corresponding web service.

Since RESTful services have simpler interfaces, WADL is not nearly as necessary to these services as WSDL is to RPC-style SOAP services.