Describing ORDS RESTful Services using a WADL
Recently I got this question (or better specification) from a customer: "For exchanging data , we either want a SOAP webservice or a REST service offering a WADL ". WADL? What's a WADL? I know WSDLs as descriptive endpoints for SOAP webservices, but WADL?! It occurs, that WADL's are intended to do just that, but in a more generic way. WADL stand for Web Application Description Language . The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) currently has no plans to implement WADL as a standard. Oracle's ORDS is going the swagger / openapi route which is partially implemented in the 17.3 release . With no existing functionality to provide a WADL for Oracle RESTful services, I had to come up with my own solution, using the APEX re pository views to generate a WADL endpoint. I came up with a small procedure for this and add an additional URI Templa...