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

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Champion [mailto:michaelc.champion@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] What Does SOAP/WS Do that A REST System Can't?
> 
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>   I *think* the whole SOAP vs REST permathread  comes down to 
> Resource-orientation vs Service-orientation ... 

I completely disagree with that. SOAP vs. REST is rich vs. reach. The
question is do I want a richer, more fully featured web service
interface(SOAP + WSDL) that is supported on a handful of tools and
platforms or a less featureful web service interface(REST/POX) that is
supported in a majority of tools and platforms? 

If every platform had excellent support for SOAP+WSDL including the
monster that is XSD, then we wouldn't be having this debate. This is the
same way railing against Javascript-based websites became passe once
Firefox cloned a bunch of the IE-specific APIs and Google started using
them to build their newer websites. 

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