juergen.brendel

SOAP and REST are not interchangeable

Recently I saw this question posted in a forum: "Does REST have better performance than SOAP"? This question is symptomatic of a fundamental misunderstanding

juergen.brendel

4 mins read | November 22, 2010

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REST constraints: A benefit-focused discussion, part 1

REST - the REpresentational State Transfer as defined in Roy Fielding's thesis - is not a protocol, a standard, an API, a technology or a

juergen.brendel

18 mins read | October 26, 2010

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RESTx version 0.9.4: JavaScript everywhere, MIME types and more

Version 0.9.4 of RESTx - the fastest way to create RESTful web services - has just been released. The main features introduced by this

juergen.brendel

12 mins read | September 1, 2010

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The value of APIs that can be crawled

Recently, there was an interesting article on ReadWriteWeb questioning the long term effect of the proliferation of public APIs, versus merely offering crawlable data.

juergen.brendel

15 mins read | August 11, 2010

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