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
4 mins read | November 22, 2010
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
18 mins read | October 26, 2010
Taking a Rest from Code Camp 2010
Code Camp continues to grow by leaps and bounds each year. For those not familiar with Code Camp, it's an all volunteer run conference
3 mins read | October 11, 2010
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
12 mins read | September 1, 2010
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.
15 mins read | August 11, 2010
Laying the foundation for RESTful web services
Ever now and then you find a new piece of software or feature, which ends up changing the way you work, saving you time
17 mins read | August 4, 2010
RESTx version 0.9.2 released
Today we are happy to announce the release of version 0.9.2 of RESTx - the fastest and simplest way to create RESTful web services.
12 mins read | August 2, 2010
Easily optimizing Python: Extending with Java
Our RESTx project - a platform for the rapid and easy creation of RESTful web services and resources - is largely written in Python.
49 mins read | July 19, 2010