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REST Eye for the SOA Guy
IEEE Internet Computing, 11 (1): 82-84 (2007)
Аннотация
You see the glaring headlines all the time in trade magazines, blogs, and mailing-list postings: “REST vs. SOA,” “REST vs. SOAP,” “REST vs. WS-*.” These squabbles can become as strident as religious debates, but I usually find myself taking the middle ground. Several of my 2005 columns, for example, discussed service-oriented architecture (SOA) and dynamic languages, which are often on opposite sides of the fence.
Yet, I’m torn in the Representational State Transfer (REST) and SOA debate—REST is extremely appealing, but my technical background is firmly rooted in the SOA camp. In this column, I try to explain REST from the viewpoint of someone steeped in SOA, with the intention of helping SOA people understand the value the REST camp so rightfully touts.
