GotzeTagged: Web Services/REST

Abstraction and control in REST vs RPC

http://blogs.iona.com/newcomer/archives/000572.html

Eric Newcomer: One of the biggest debates in the software industry is about getting the level of abstraction right. By this I mean a level of interaction with computers higher than binary code or machine language - in other words, anything that presents humans with a more natural or intuitive abstraction of a CPU's instruction set and binary data storage format. Computers are after all fundamentally stupid electrical systems that have to be told exactly what to do. At the end of the day, everything is just 1s and 0s - the bit is either on or off. But it is really hard for us humans to work with computers at that level, so we keep trying to make it easier for people to tell computers what to do. Getting the abstraction right is key to developer productivity, but it's a constant struggle. Abstraction layers typically remove flexibility and control from one level in order to simplify things at the next.
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RESTful SOA using XML

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-restfulsoa/

Service Oriented Architecture usually implies heavyweight technology for large enterprises. The advantages of the SOA architectural pattern also apply to smaller environments. To follow SOA principles, you don't necessarily need all the overhead that is useful in larger environments. You can use lightweight principles like REST to do so. This article describes how.
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Protocol Action: 'The Atom Publishing Protocol' to Proposed Standard

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg03937.html

The IESG has approved 'The Atom Publishing Protocol ' as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lisa Dusseault and Chris Newman. Technical Summary The Atom Publishing Protocol HTTP-based protocol for publishing and editing web resources, and is particularly useful for (but not limited to) blogs. It supports ideas such as collections of multimedia items and categorization of items. It uses the Atom format (RFC 4287) for its messages.
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RESTful Web services and their Ajax-based clients

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restajax/index.html

Shailesh K. Mishra of IBM, 05 Jul 2007: A RESTful Web service is a Web service built using the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. This article demonstrates one way to write RESTful Web services, using a simple proxy servlet and their Asynchronous XML JavaScript (Ajax)-based clients.
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Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/02/15/jython-soap-interface-to-rest.html

It's tremendously difficult to argue a RESTful approach to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), when the corporate mindshare is SOAP--where project stakeholders tout the SOA buzzword, nod their heads sagely when you say SOAP, nod their heads again when you say XML-RPC, and then look blankly when you mention REST. At an official level, it seems that for the IBMs, Suns, Microsofts, and Oracles (et al) of this world, REST isn't even on the radar; perhaps more because they would find it difficult to build a commercial strategy around something that is based on simplicity and standards (like HTTP) that have been around for years, than from a true lack of visibility at the coalface.
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Interactive REST Tutorial

http://www.osmoticweb.com/rest-tutorial/

This tutorial explains how to use a Web Service with an interface based on the principles of the REpresentational State Transfer architecture. In this tutorial, the reader can experiment by sending GET, POST, PUT and DELETE messages to a Web Service.
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Where's the simplicity in Web services?

http://news.com.com/Wheres+the+simplicity+in+Web+services/2100-7345_3-5395630.html

Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex?
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Web Services: REST in Peace?

http://www.webservices.org/index.php/content/view/full/39565

Jim Webber presents the case that the REST and orthodox positions have not only converged, but that the so-called orthodoxy has actually surpassed the REST architectural principles by decoupling the Web from Web Services and reducing the REST approach to a subset of the new Web Services architecture.
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The SOAP/XML-RPC/REST Saga, Chap. 51

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/12/SoapAgain

Tim Bray: You, dear readers, have ringside seats! Does the power of naming everything with URIs buy enough to compensate for the inconvenience of having to jam complex requests into them? Does the convenience of packaging up your request in XML buy enough to compensate for the loss of naming power? Is the future of the Web spelt S.W. or W.S. or both or neither? Stay tuned.
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Building Web Services the REST Way

http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

Roger L. Costello provides a brief introduction to REST and describes how to build Web services in the REST style.
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Yahoo! Groups : rest-discuss

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/

Introductory-level discussion about REpresentational State Transfer, the name given to the architecture of the World Wide Web by Roy Fielding.
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