13 articles tagged REST.
I have watched this debate unfold at every client site I have visited in the past few years. There are several angles to this question. From a technical stand point, a service is a program that takes some type of input, performs a task, and return some type of output. This is vague. It can describe…
Read article: What is a Web Service? What is a Service?A Service Consumer is any tier of an organization’s systems that calls web services. These services could be implemented by SOAP, REST, XML over HTTP, EJBs, JMS or MQ applications, RMI, RPC, invocation of COBOL programs on a mainframe with 3270 screen-scraping, communication over a custom TCP…
Read article: What is a Service Consumer?REST web services are not nearly as formalized as their SOAP equivalent. A REST web service adheres to the principals laid out in Roy Fielding’s PhD Thesis. REST stands for Representational State Transition.
Read article: What Is A REST Web Service?
