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| Report Summary |
| Title: | RESTful Services | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Stephenson | ||
| Publication Date: | 23 September 2003 | ||
| Report Type: | Journal | ||
| Report Class: | Best Practice | ||
| Abstract: | REST, REpresentational State Transfer has become a hot topic of conversation in the discussion forums of late and in this report we will explore some of the issues and try to understand both the differences and similarities between SOAP based Web Services and REST. | ||
| Backgrounder: | The term REST was invented by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation to describe an architecture style of networked systems. We detect some irrelevant politics mixed up in the debate; anti-SOAP equals anti big blue-chip companies (in this case Microsoft and IBM) where REST is seen as technology for ‘the rest of us’ and also some understandable resistance to the sheer complexity of the SOAP stack. While RPC style Web Services couldn’t be more different in approach from REST we find many similarities between the document oriented approach and REST and look for complementary approaches. | ||
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