As I and many others continue venturing deeper into the hard decision making process and for in the road between REST and SOAP I have came across another great blog post by Nathan Stults over at thefreakparade.com entitled “Rinsing the SOAP from WCF (or, RESTful WCF Hyperlink Acupuncture)“.
If you’re asking me, I love the concepts of REST and would have it already implemented for public-facing services, but WCF services I am working with of late are all private-facing and require authentication so I have put research on that on hold. However it does connect with my next point…
More interestingly aside the links on that blog, a post on that page to a Udi Dahan podcast which goes deep into the definition, usefulness and appropriateness of REST particularly dealing with Enterprise Solutions, so perhaps REST in enterprise and private-facing services is not too unrealistic. Great listen.
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I love REST too, and it makes perfect sense when trying to reach a broad audience. You are right, enterprise solutions that have one or two consumers should probably stick to more structured protocols.
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