You may or may not be aware that there is debate going on about the “right” way to implement heterogeneous application-to-application communication: While the current mainstream clearly focuses on web services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe, a small, but very vocal minority claims there’s a better way: REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer. In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate. I will go into more detail while explaining those aspects that, in my experience, cause the most discussion when someone is exposed to this approach for the first time.
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%1 tilkov_brief_2007
%A Tilkov, Stefan
%D 2007
%J InfoQ
%K REST mydhq2008
%T A Brief Introduction to REST
%U http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
%X You may or may not be aware that there is debate going on about the “right” way to implement heterogeneous application-to-application communication: While the current mainstream clearly focuses on web services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe, a small, but very vocal minority claims there’s a better way: REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer. In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate. I will go into more detail while explaining those aspects that, in my experience, cause the most discussion when someone is exposed to this approach for the first time.
@misc{tilkov_brief_2007,
abstract = {You may or may not be aware that there is debate going on about the “right” way to implement heterogeneous application-to-application communication: While the current mainstream clearly focuses on web services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe, a small, but very vocal minority claims there’s a better way: REST, short for REpresentational State Transfer. In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate. I will go into more detail while explaining those aspects that, in my experience, cause the most discussion when someone is exposed to this approach for the first time.},
added-at = {2008-09-08T21:48:09.000+0200},
author = {Tilkov, Stefan},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23e93b1c70d6996f157e0f7f9b23807b6/paregorios},
copyright = {Copyright 2006-2007 C4Media Inc.},
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intrahash = {3e93b1c70d6996f157e0f7f9b23807b6},
journal = {InfoQ},
keywords = {REST mydhq2008},
month = {December},
timestamp = {2008-09-11T22:50:07.000+0200},
title = {A Brief Introduction to REST},
url = {http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction},
year = 2007
}