Category: REST
July 10th, 2007
REST-style architecture in the real world
A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge to facilitate delivering product and market information over the web. Surprisingly, many people are building REST applications in business and aren’t even aware of it.
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June 19th, 2007
Microsoft needs REST
Apparently, Microsoft is diverging from the rest of the Web 2.0 world on how to approach integration and mashups. REST (Representational State Transition) is an architectural style that is transforming how systems integrate together, but it isn’t a standard. The ATOM Publishing Protocol (APP) is a popular RESTful standard used by Google and Yahoo among others to integrated services and manage publishing of information. However, Microsoft has taken exception to APP that everyone else is adopting and chosen to build their own protocol.
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May 25th, 2007
REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services
There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors support content services through the myriad of web services support layers that have been developed over the last decade? Or should we take a leap into the future with the simple REST architecture used by Amazon, Yahoo, Google and dozens of other web properties? The answer can affect how applications, developers and even consumers view information services. I don’t think it is going to be as simple as let’s do both.
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