The "contract-first" approach to Web services creation provides developers with the right path to service-oriented architecture (SOA), says the creator of Spring Web Services 1.0 released this week by Interface21 Ltd., the company behind the Spring framework.
The new Spring Web Services framework, which was two years in the making, grew out of a desire to create tools for building Web services "the right way," said Arjen Poutsma, project lead for Spring Web Services. He defined the right way as being contract-first.
Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC, agreed.