RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Overview of the WADL structure

The WADL schema that you use for building a WADL file is based on the WADL specification (https://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/). Here is a quick overview of the WADL file content that describes the RESTful web APIs:

The top-level element in a WADL document is application. It contains global information about RESTful web services, such as links to the schema definition and documentation. Here is a quick summary of the elements that you'll see in WADL:

• <resources>: This element comes as wrapper for all the resources exposed by a RESTful web application. The base attribute for the resources identifies the base path ...