WADL
WADL is designed to provide a machine process-able description of HTTP-based web applications. We can find more information about WADL in the latest version of the W3C submission of the WADL specification at http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/.
We discussed WSDL when we first looked into the SOAP based web services. Though WSDL can be used to describe SOAP-based web services in a comprehensive manner, it has limitations with HTTP operations such as PUT and DELETE, among others. As REST services often deal with HTTP methods, WSDL is not a good option for documenting RESTful services. More precisely, WSDL 1.1 is not a good choice for RESTful services. Later on, WSDL 2.0 specification was launched to address the concerns encountered with WSDL ...
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