I don't know if you're aware of the SOAP vs REST debate 10 years ago or Web Services vs CORBA before that. Client generation, or any code generation at all, was

I don't know if you're aware of the SOAP vs REST debate 10 years ago or Web Services vs CORBA before that. Client generation, or any code generation at all, was seen as a big no-no in the REST camp, so I find it ironic that today this is used as Swagger et. al.'s saving grace. What I frequently see is that inherently action-oriented protocols are crammed into resource-oriented REST facades, only without any formal interface descriptions at all, and without formal transactional or authorization semantics. OTOH, JSON REST services can't be used without browser-side glue code at all so the Web mismatch argument isn't working either. Makes you really wonder if there is any rationality or progress in middleware usage at all.