Tim Bray on SellsCon

Hallelujah! I thought it was just me who's been thinking that WSDL doesn't really add any value when:

1) you're not bothered about XSD and ORM - ie you'll do the message processing yourself
2) you need a more dynamic/flexible binding mechanism than WSDL gives you

I'm glad to hear that Indigo won't be mandating using stuff that we don't always need. Will it make it equally easy NOT to use it though? - because asmx doesn't. WSDL seems to have gained most traction in the codegen'd proxy space with tooling but as we all heard (and agreed?) at the SellsCon last week, that experience isn't always great if constrained by XSD.

I have done exactly this in Super Dynamic Invoker. You can access wsdl/types as XmlElement (my own API not .NET ...) and then if you prefer cast XsSchema view (use to dig sequence of elements for doc/literal bindings) or not - your choice ;-)

I'm glad to hear that Indigo