Grouper Developers Forum

["Sanjay Vivek" <>]

Sanjiva Weerawarana (the father of WSDL) recently gave a very good
presentation about SOAP vs REST. Interestingly enough, he finds REST
services harder to implement. Then again you might have to take this
with a pinch of salt as he's probably more comfortable with the SOAP
side of things. The presentation can be found at
http://wso2.org/files/myths-facts-lies-apacheconus07.pdf

Cheers
Sanjay 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Fox 
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>Sent: 28 November 2007 17:59
>To: Sanjay Vivek
>Cc: RL 'Bob' Morgan; Grouper Dev
>Subject: RE: [grouper-dev] Grouper & Web Services
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>>
>> REST is the more 'light-weight', agile approach. There is also a lot 
>> of traction around REST tooling (Restlet, JSR-311 etc.), however not 
>> so much as around SOAP. We have also noticed most new public APIs 
>> (Google, Yahoo, Amazon etc.) prefer to use REST to SOAP.
>>
>
>Around here interest in REST is sharply rising and in SOAP falling.
>If you are programming for the future, rather than the past, 
>REST seems the better choice.
>
>Jim
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