rest-ws looks great

I've long been a fan of RelaxNG Compact Syntax (I guess RNC is the abbreviation) over XSDs. Now to avoid folks struggling with XSDs and WSDLs in nasty verbose angle brackets, there's the rather nice looking relax-ws. Now we just need a nice eclipse plugin... Enjoy!

10 reasons to model XML with RELAX NG , not W3C XML Schema

A great post by Griffin Brown is 10 reasons to model XML with RELAX NG , not W3C XML Schema

I'm really pleased to see the move away from J2EE to simpler POJO models; away from complex WS-deathstar to simpler REST, to JSON away from complex XML + namespaces + XSDs etc. Am hoping the trend continues with more and more people moving to RelaxNG Compact Syntax away from XSDs...