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Michael Champion wrote: > Mu. REST is a protocol, SOAP is a message format. <duck> > > Less pedantically, as people tend to use them in practice, WS-* > builds a lot of capabilities (pretty much one capability for each WS > spec) into the infrastructure. REST leaves them up to the application > builder, except for those you get "for free" with the Web > infrastructure such as HTTP authentication, HTTPS, etc. (If those > don't work for you, e.g. you need end to end encryption rather than > the point to point encryption that HTTPS provides, you are on your > own). > XML Encryption works just as well for documents sent using REST as using SOAP. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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