Why use SOAP when you can REST?

Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, emmanouil.dimogerontakis@est.upc.fib.edu

WEB RESTs 

       REST is the key architectural principle of WEBRoy T. Fielding. “A little REST and Relaxation.” ApacheCon Europe, 10 April 2008  

REST is CRUD 

       So what?

The truth about the world! 

● There are no applications you can think of which cannot be made to fit into the GET / PUT / POST /DELETE resources / representations model of the world!

 ● Other interfaces considered harmful

because they increase the costs of consuming particular service

  

What REST offers? 

● Unlike SOAP and XML-RPC, REST does not require a new message format

 ● Easy to build - no toolkits required ● Lightweight ● Human Readable Results

What the rest of the architectures offer?

 ● Break Web architecture ● Significantly higher coordination costs ● Don't scale well  

REST - the trendy way to build WEB services

        John Musser, Open APIs and the Semantic Web,Semtech 2011

RESTful Web Services 

   

The Future is here 

Vision:A World Wide Web that runs on one set of

servers, uses one set of protocols, and obeys one set of design principlesHow:

Resource Oriented Architecture(ROA) through REST.

So it is time to ... REST