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Re: What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?


eat soap
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).

Basically REST offers a discipline for making lemonade out of these
lemons, whereas WS-* offers a wide range of genetically modified sweet
lemons that you can supposedly eat right off the tree.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:36:22 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len)
<len.bullard@i...> wrote:
> After all the threads on this, I can't remember ever
> seeing this question answered.  Can someone point me
> to a list of the capabilities that one gets using
> SOAP/WS* that one won't get using REST?
> 
> len
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