RE: [xml-dev] What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

In the general case, REST is XML over HTTP. In the general case, SOAP is
XML over HTTP. Anything you can do with one, you can do with the other.
Using SOAP standardizes some things, you'd have to reinvent if you go
with REST. Using SOAP+WSDL does so even more. 


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@intergraph.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:36 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?
> 
> After all the threads on this, I can't remember ever seeing 
> this question answered.  Can someone point me to a list of 
> the capabilities that one gets using
> SOAP/WS* that one won't get using REST?
> 
> len
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