[Webservices] example REST webservice

[Hank Ratzesberger]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hank Ratzesberger" <hankr at crustal.ucsb.edu>
To: "IRIS WebServices List" <webservices at iris.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Webservices] example REST webservice


> An interesting article by Tim O'Reilly discussing the 
> so called "Web 2.0" says that REST fits well into the 
> its lighter-weight, easier to adapt/append principles: 
> 
> Similarly, Amazon.com's web services are provided in two forms: 
> one adhering to the formalisms of the SOAP (Simple Object Access 
> Protocol) web services stack, the other simply providing XML data 
> over HTTP, in a lightweight approach sometimes referred to as REST 
> (Representational State Transfer). While high value B2B connections 
> (like those between Amazon and retail partners like ToysRUs) use 
> the SOAP stack, Amazon reports that 95% of the usage is of the 
> lightweight REST service.
> 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228
> 
> One thing about REST is you can look at them with a browser. 
> This delivers the list of video streams with an 
> <?xsl-stylesheet ?> instruction so that browsers render formatted
> html (but view/source and you'll see it's XML).
> 
> --Hank
> 
> Hank Ratzesberger
> NEES Programmer
> Institute for Crustal Studies
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805.893.8042
> 805.893.8649 (fax)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joanna Muench" <joanna at iris.washington.edu>
> To: <webservices at iris.washington.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:14 AM
> Subject: [Webservices] example REST webservice
> 
> 
>> While we mostly covered SOAP web services at the workshop, there are 
>> currently more REST services available. I was at the FGIT meeting last 
>> week (Forum for Geoscience Infrastructure) and attended a lively 
>> discussion on SOAP vs. REST. Like so many of these things, the answer 
>> was "it depends".
>> 
>> One of the participants showed me how his group is using REST within 
>> their web site: http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/. The web site also 
>> includes a nice JSP template with examples.
>> 
>> Joanna
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