Contract First Web Services

I must be getting old.

For a while, I resisted the Spring-WS approach of contract first web services. I quickly dismissed it as too much work. I was just more interested in annotating my pojos to get them quickly deployed so that I can get some web services available.

Well, over the last couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to catch my breath and have an open mind about Spring's case for Contract First Web Services.

Read it here yourself.

Their case is certainly a good one. At the end of the day, the contract really should start with the XML.

Every approach has its pro's and con's, but I think I will be giving much more serious consideration to Contract First Web Services!