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On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:28:33AM -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > As far as I can tell, all the major tool vendors also support > the REST architecture. What the pushback is is that for the > programmer, it is harder to code REST. Again, REST requires > discipline and SOAP requires a toolkit. Given that, SOAP > will win because the payoffs start immediately and REST is > sort of a deferred gratification based on predictable interfaces. That discipline isn't gratuitous, it's to enable ad hoc communication over a network between uncoordinated parties. Without the discipline, you lose that. Which is why we've seen public Web services deployed on the Internet "blossom" from 35 to 165 in about a year; http://www.markbaker.ca/2002/04/WebServicesGrowth/ This use of SOAP *cannot* win, no matter how much developers like it, or how much hype it receives. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@p... http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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