Thursday, December 27, 2007

Soap vs REST

Nice comparison of REST vs SOAP for Web services:
http://www.iks.inf.ethz.ch/education/ss07/ws_soa/slides/SOAPvsREST_ETH.pdf

My take is REST is really simple and nice to build query dominating type of webservices like google or amazon. [More like automating opening an URI in a browser]

But for real enterprise type business processes SOAP is the way to go although it takes more time to build on it. It is too much of complexity for simple services.

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