WebServices DevCon Day 2

Another good day in the DevCon.

I really enjoyed Clemens Vasters presentation. Most of the presentations explained that the 'right' way to do webservices was to write the XML Schema for your types and the WSDL files for your portTypes, arguing that web services is really about XML and not 'objects' that get magically serialized over the wire.

He was the only one who said that if that's the way most people is supposed to build web services, then there won't be a widespread adoption of webservices. It's just too hard. I completely agree with him.

He wanted to solve that problem, so he built a complete set of SoapExtensions to add most of the stuff that ASP.NET does not provide and it should, like security, session management, logging, etc. He also showed undocumented ways of changing the way ASP.NET generates the WSDL files. Cool.