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I'm not sure what your point is. REST [1] has beaten SOAP as the de facto API standard, and JSON has beaten XML as the de facto standard for portable data struc
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. REST [1] has beaten SOAP as the de facto API standard, and JSON has beaten XML as the de facto standard for portable data structure.
[1] Notwithstanding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304244 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304244
- kree10 17y agoI think the point is the "winners" have something in common and this is no accident. XML and SOAP came out of "let's invent new formats and protocols"-type standardization, while REST and JSON were products of (essentially) one guy looking at a simple, existing, well-known concept (HTTP and js object literals, respectively) and putting a new frame around it.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoI understand what you're saying and broadly agree with you; though I'd point out that Roy Fielding, the guy who articulated REST, was one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification.