"There has been a long running debate in the Application Platform Services Group here at Burton Group between the REST people on one side and the SOAP people on the other. For the most part it mirrors the external debate. In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework, the SOAP side said, “Before all of the WS-* stuff, SOAP was actually simple. That’s what the ‘S’ stood for.”
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can.axis
16 years 38 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago
There is a of interesting SOAP
There is a of interesting SOAP and REST links on the web; but this one is a MUST, and sound like a Socratic dialog!!
In fact, it's just an introduction for the last XULfr french news:
Firefox 3: SOAP abandonné (yes abandonned like on Google SOAP Search API)
http://xulfr.org/news/2007/08/05/227-firefox-3-soap-abandonne
In the REST vs SOAP war, it seems REST is winning :) Good new for RESTful Web Services developers :-)
Bug 332174 – Drop SOAP support (Firefox 3): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332174
Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 (Changes in this Development Milestone)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a7/releasenotes/
http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/ (old news)
can.axis
16 years 38 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago
another links: How I Explained
another links:
How I Explained REST to My Wife.(Ryan Tomakyo) ==> http://tomayko.com/articles/2004/12/12/rest-to-my-wife
REST vs. HTTP + POX vs. SOAP.(Adam Trachtenberg) ==> http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2006/11/06/rest-vs-httppox-vs-soap/
REST Web Services. ==> http://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-Services/
Why SOAP Sucks (Nelson Minar) ==> http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/whySoapSucks.html?seemore=y