[Webservices] example REST webservice

Marlon Pierce mpierce at cs.indiana.edu
Sat Oct 15 11:08:28 PDT 2005


I think its more appropriate to compare REST to the W3C's Web Service 
Architecture than to SOAP:  http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/.

Marlon

Joanna Muench wrote:

> 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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