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Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] RE: Re: [resources] REST(RepresentationalStateTransfer)
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On Oct 21, 2008, at 12:15 PM, David Carver wrote:
So, from your experience... does it make sense to
work on API being more RESTful or not?
If you follow the patterns and rules for creating a good REST
implementation, it's much easier to implement than an equivalant
SOAP web service. It's also much more tool friendly.
Actually, neither of these is considered true. The WS-* world, with
the tooling behind it in the enterprise tool sets, makes it fairly
easy to implement and use WS-* services.
The problem with WS-* is that it's considered brittle. Tight
coupling. "On the web", not "Of the web", in terms of things like
doing caching right. etc, etc.
REST is a good thing to look at, but keep in mind it's not simple.
I think one thing you can say about the "simple" aspect of REST, is
that the messages flows are much more straight-forward than WS-* -
less wrappers, etc. Designing it so that it actually IS simple to
use, is not simple. :-)
Patrick Mueller
http://muellerware.org/
