REST Versus Soap

Ovid on 2009-08-19T06:17:22

This about sums it up.

In fact, if you sit and think about it for a while, it has much, much deeper meaning for our industry as a whole. Try telling managers that, though.

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The S stands for Simple

mattk on 2009-08-19T07:42:14

I always enjoyed this Socratic dialogue on SOAP: http://72.249.21.88/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/

See also

Aristotle on 2009-08-19T11:25:22

Roy Fielding on enterprise software.

The REST Dialogues

daxim on 2009-08-19T12:03:20

http://duncan-cragg.org/blog/post/getting-data-rest-dialogues/

Irony...

Matts on 2009-08-19T13:39:57

Rather ironic that page has mojibake on it though :-/

S is for stupid

Burak on 2009-08-19T22:24:18

Never understood SOAP fully and didn't spend too much time on it, but .NET services gave me lots of headaches when I tried to access them via SOAP::Lite

Re:S is for stupid

Ovid on 2009-08-20T06:09:18

SOAP::Lite has many problems of its own. I've used it a few times, but always struggled with it.