• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: RE: Why is there little usage of XML on the "visibleWeb"?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:55 -0400
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Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> 
> *ASSERTION #11*
> 
>  
> 
> *Web services are part of the hidden Web, and thus obsessing over their 
> nature (/e.g.,/ SOAP versus REST) is not valuable. *
> 

Au contraire. The whole point of REST vs. SOAP is that RESTful services 
are part of the visible web and SOAPy services aren't. (Of course 
anything can be locked up behind a firewall on an Intranet if you so 
choose.)

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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