Comments on: Web Services war is over: Time to REST http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: links for 2007-08-18 « The Adventures of Geekgirl http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177174 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:48:35 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177174 [...] The Future of Software » Blog Archive Web Services war is over: Time to REST « (tags: web2.0 webservices api soa soap rest) [...]

]]> By: Django http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177173 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:54:04 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177173 I think REST has it’s place, and can be useful. But for seamlessly integrating webservices directly into existing and new applications, I find SOAP to be a much better solution. Especially when not all of the data is just plain text.

]]> By: Nasir Ali Khan : Web Services war is over: Time to REST http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177160 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:51:42 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177160 [...] quite a turnaround in the distributed application development Now that REST has won in the sense of representing the future of distributed application development on the web, what do we expect to see? Why of course a flood of enterprise software vendors offering REST support of some sort or another: Microsoft and IBM have already recognized the opportunity with Astoria and Project Zero, respectively http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2007/05/14/the-beginning-of-the-end/  Cheers,Nasir Ali Khan  Posted: Friday, August 10, 2007 6:48 PM by nasir Filed under: Web Technologies [...]

]]> By: Thomas http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177161 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:13:08 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177161 Does this mean that the programming community starts to realize that “it’s all about the data” and not the programming language? It doesn’t surprise me that a programming style that uses simple Database retrieval and modification mechanisms is winning. After all, what is Google but a giant database?

]]> By: Nitin Borwankar http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177164 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:56:55 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177164 anon:

A resource is a result set item, i.e. a “row” in a result set – that’s all.
Aything that is received as a part of a result which is a response to a query, Yes, it’s abstract but so is “result set” and we don’t blink an eyelash when we hear “result set”, do we ?

]]> By: anon http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177166 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:12:28 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177166 WTF is a “resource”? That’s the problem with REST. If I’m just doing “API calls” I have no idea what a “resource” is. I’m just GETing some data or POSTing some data and getting a response. There’s no reason to support such complex data models since at the end of the day, most data has to be represnetable in 2D or perhaps 3D.

Say it with me: request-response, request-response, request-response…

How hard is that?

]]> By: relationary http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177165 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:21:33 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177165 [...] I was recently reading this blog post about REST winning the Web Services war.  And I noticed that one of the cornerstones of the simplicity of REST is a [...]

]]> By: Elias Torres » Blog Archive » What will Mark do now? http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177172 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:29:38 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177172 [...] advantages, scalability, ease of use, etc. Today is a sad day, that’s for sure. Read the article for yourself. Now that REST has won in the sense of representing the future of distributed [...]

]]> By: Top Posts « WordPress.com http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177171 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:59:31 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177171 [...] Web Services war is over: Time to REST Now that REST has won in the sense of representing the future of distributed application development on the web, what […] [...]

]]> By: Grant Czerepak http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177170 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:20:34 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177170 REST is the winner for simplicity. The security, if implemented with REST’s structure as a guiding principle, will have no impact on this.

Good article.

]]> By: Anne Zelenka http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177169 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:06:20 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177169 Thanks, Pete, that means a lot coming from you. It was a lot of work to boil down the REST and WS-* discussion into such a short article.

I put in “theoretically” because I suspect that in building an actual REST-style application, engineers might have to make some tradeoffs that take it away from pure REST and compromise the scalability, evolvability, composability, etc. Be interested to hear real-world experiences in that regard though.

]]> By: Pete Lacey http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177168 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:32:10 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177168 You know what I like best about this article, your description of REST is both concise and accurate. Very rare, indeed. I’d get rid of the word “theoretically,” but, hey, that’s just me.

  • Pete
]]> By: stephanv http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177167 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:08:59 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177167 REST is truly a powerful way to design the applications for an enterprise 2.0. In our company we use it quite a while and it’s still easy to integrate new and other software within a short time. The open topic is it to combine the REST architecture with a new and simple way to define process steps. That finally would kill SOA.

]]> By: Gleb Esman http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177163 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:42:18 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177163 I think it’s a war of simplicity of complexity. REST is very simple to use and in no time with rudimental tools anyone can put an active web service on the web.
Security of REST could be utilized easily with SSL and without any extra buzzwords or buzz technologies.
REST has never been at war – but was quietly winning :)

Gleb

]]> By: GigaOM Cupertino bound, REST & More « http://gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177162 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:23:48 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/07/web-services-war-is-over-time-to-rest/#comment-177162 [...] content finding new distribution online via Broadband over on NewTeeVee. Anne Zelenka has a piece about REST and how it represents the future of (enterprise) [...]

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