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Re: Web service question...

On 7/18/2011 1:42 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
However I have done all sorts of services from true SOAP services to what you're showing which is probably a REST-like call (the new term applied to simple HTTP URL commands).

Not exactly new - the term REST was coined a decade ago by one of the guys who authored the HTTP protocol. REST is actually a lot closer to HTTP than SOAP (which IMO is one of the most over-engineered standards ever created, with the possible exceptions of EJB1 and 2).

Joe

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