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REST vs. SOAP. Sam Ruby and Mark Baker are the latest to debate the relative merits of REST and SOAP, and RPC-and document-style interaction of web services. I don't want to add fuel to the fire (there's been more than enough of that), but I see the benefits of all of these models. They all have their places.
OTOH, I do think many organizations will eventually receive tremendous value from the more loosely coupled interation models. As Sam wrote:
IMHO, the model of the future is going to be more closely based on events and alerts than on request/response. Applications will simply know to construct a given configuration of molecules when they receive a given stimulous. They won't necessarily even be aware of who the intended recipient of such "requests" is.
I learned much of this from the time I spent with John McDowall of Grand Central Communications. John helped me see that the asynchronous model is really all about event-driven architectures and techniques. I'll post more on this later in the week. In the meantime, you can bet the REST/SOAP and RPC/document discussions/arguments will continue.
Posted Monday, March 10, 2003 3:31:23 PM 
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