Comments on: What is a RESTful Web Service ? http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2006/11/16/what-is-a-restful-web-service/ Freeman, Hacker, Artist Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:22:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Rajesh Duggal http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2006/11/16/what-is-a-restful-web-service/#comment-3 Rajesh Duggal Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:59:00 +0000 http://rajith.2rlabs.com/2006/11/16/what-is-a-restful-web-service/#comment-3 My crystal ball predicts that REST is a great idea that will continue to loose ground to SOAP style WS and will later re-emerge in a different form.<br/><br/>Just like the original concept of HTML.. remember.. they said use STRONG and EM tags, not B and I tags, because HTML should describe the content, not define how it's displayed. Html coders liked the idea but still it still lost ground to tables and spacer.gifs... and now the concept has re-emerged with CSS.<br/><br/>On the other hand.. developers might soon realize that upgrading their webservices to latest version of SOAP sucks and will simplify their WSs to a REST style, so they don't need to "upgrade" them, and worry about upgrading the clients that talk to them.<br/><br/>Rajesh Duggal My crystal ball predicts that REST is a great idea that will continue to loose ground to SOAP style WS and will later re-emerge in a different form.

Just like the original concept of HTML.. remember.. they said use STRONG and EM tags, not B and I tags, because HTML should describe the content, not define how it’s displayed. Html coders liked the idea but still it still lost ground to tables and spacer.gifs… and now the concept has re-emerged with CSS.

On the other hand.. developers might soon realize that upgrading their webservices to latest version of SOAP sucks and will simplify their WSs to a REST style, so they don’t need to “upgrade” them, and worry about upgrading the clients that talk to them.

Rajesh Duggal

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