On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Jakub Podlesak wrote:
> As opposed to "regular" web services with which you communicate
> through SOAP
> messages, RESTful web services can be accessed via the much simpler
> and more
> well-known HTTP GET, POST, PUT, DELETE methods, making it easier for
> non-Java
> clients (e. g. Javascript or Perl) and for developers not familiar
> with web
> services to invoke its operations. Of course, however, you have to
> pay a price
> for it. First, you lose -- or at least have to implement yourself --
> many
> sophisticated features like security, reliable transport, optimized
> message
> transfer, registries etc., available in "regular" web services.
I strongly disagree you lose anything available in "regular" web
services; in fact, I claim there's nothing regular about them and it's
sort of weird to treat REST as if it came afterwards. But it doesn't
really matter whether or not you agree with me: I strongly advise to
keep any comparison with Web services out of the text to avoid getting
drawn into flame wars.
Stefan
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Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/