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Rich Salz is a hammer. He dissects and destroys the upcoming new version of WSDL in his latest article on XML.com.

To put it simply, these specifications are astoundingly bad. The comment period ended October 4, although looking at the comment list archive shows that comments were still being received, and processed, as recently as last week. According to W3C procedure, at this point the Director can send the documents back to the group, or he can allow them to move forward and ask for implementation information as the next step in becoming an official W3C Recommendation.

It is my feverent hope that not only will Tim Berners-Lee send the documents back to the working group, but that he'll attend their next face-to-face meeting and spank everyone involved. WSDL 2.0 is the worst example of architecture astronautics I have ever seen. While these documents might be useful to someone developing a WSDL tool, they are practically useless for a web services developer who wants to use WSDL to define their interface.

Yikes. Seems I have to go and read through this stuff, finally.