1. A method comprising: identifying a component associated with a uniform resource identifier (URI) in metadata for a RESTful (Representational State Transfer) web service; receiving user input selecting a programming language; determining programming code format for the component in the selected programming language; populating, by a processing device, a file with the programming code format of the component in the selected programming language; identifying, in the metadata, a sub-component for the component; and creating, by the processing device, a placeholder in the file, the placeholder comprising a sub-component placeholder that corresponds to the sub-component, wherein the file causes creation of a method for the URI of the RESTful web service.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the component describes a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) method for the URI.