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At one time SOAP wasn't too bad, until it tried to solve a lot of complicated problems (via WS-*), and in the process made the simple problems complex. Contras
by ahupp 16y ago
At one time SOAP wasn't too bad, until it tried to solve a lot of complicated problems (via WS-*), and in the process made the simple problems complex. Contrast this with HTTP which is being used for ever-more complex problems yet is really no more complicated in the simple case than it was in 2000. This seems like an important principle in protocol design.
- pornel 16y agoIndeed. "RESTful" is basically a name for using HTTP well, and such APIs are usable for anything from bash script to Big Vendor Library™.