How do you add versioning information to web services?

Question

I would be interested to get the community’s opinions on the best way to add versioning information to web services.

In our company we work with Weblogic WLS, OSB and SOA. Now we want to attach the versioning information to the web services, so we see/recognize per web service the current version. The best way would be to work with metadata.

My Question:

What is best practice in this case?

Has someone experience with it?

Knows someone a good tutorial?

Answer 1

The best approach I've found for SOAP services is Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

For REST services, you want to version your media-type