Emerging Technology Briefs: WSDL
A brief look at the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and its role as the
de facto standard Web Services description format.
Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is a Partner at The Accelerator Group. He writes extensively about the
social and economic effects of the internet for the O'Reilly Network, Business 2.0,
and
FEED. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
and the Harvard Business Review.
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be
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