An ambiguity from the boss of standards
We all know that the standards for web is enforced by W3C (The world wide web consortium). Most of the web standards are defined and agreed by this consortium. The standard called WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is also defined by W3C. They have provided an official page for notes on WSDL in the link http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl which is being referred in most of the documents, books and materials. People who read this W3C notes page can see the ambagious expansion for acronym WSDL in it. The title of the page says its Web Services Description Language which is exactly correct as most of the knowledge base (including Wikipedia) expands it.
But, the browser title says it as a Web Service Definition Language. Though people can debate that it can be both, the literal meaning for definition and description are different and how these can be alternatively used by a standards consortium for the reason that they have same letter at first and that too by a standards consortium? See the screenshot below. Note that this page was jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM. This is not simply a criticism but it is just a pointing out how people are careless in their responsibilities.
But, the same is appearing correctly in the version WSDL 2.0 recommendations page see the browser title in the link http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/.










Its been a pleasure to see a colleague, maintaining such a informative website, which not only focus on the development, which also let know the latest trends thats being adapted by folks..
Cheers!!! Keep up the good work Ganesh.
Kalai Selvan
GIS Lead
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