Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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O'Neill: Architecting Security for Web Services "SOAP is e-mail for applications." Good overview of the security issues unique to XML and web services by Mark O'Neill, CTO of Vordel. [Source: JavaPro]
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:34:59 PM 
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Bosworth: Learning to REST Although he confesses not to fully understand it, Adam Bosworth presents an excellent case for the disadvantages of the REST model for web services.
- REST is tied to HTTP. There's no mechanism for reliable or asynchronous delivery.
- Correlation of requests and responses isn't inherent.
- REST has no loosely bound mechanism for describing interfaces (such as WSDL).
- REST doesn't allow the combination of a query (GET) with an update (PUT) in a single request. (Could be important for applications supported by server-side data caching.)
- REST doesn't support the subscribe/event message-exchange pattern. (Actually, REST probably does this, but at a higher level, not inherent in the low-level request/response model.)
Check back to read the comments to Adam's blog. I expect valuable responses from Mike Dierkin and Mark Baker.
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2003 7:30:07 PM
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