Re: SOAP vs. REST

My choice.. REST.. but RPG and the Apache server and YAJL.

Or REST and Node. All depends on your skillset and what you need to
interface with on the back end.

In the hundreds of web services I've worked with only 1 or 2 were still
SOAP. Uck.

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:24 PM Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon, thanks. My choice among the ones you suggested would be Python.

I'll look into that.


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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:10 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: [WEB400] SOAP vs. REST

REST for sure. And personally I would not use IWS for a multitude of
reasons. I love it for proof of concept stuff but I'd rather "roll my own"
using PHP, node, Python or RPG.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jul 10, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Jim Oberholtzer

<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Folks:



I'm about to do an incredibly scary thing, start to develop my own
software that includes the use of IWS. To suggest I'm starting from
the beginning is at best charitable. I can architect the software,
that's easy. Actually doing the development, my RPG credentials were
revoked a long time ago, so there's that learning curve. Then there
are some decisions to be made in the architecture. To that end:



So as part of the software planning process the question comes up SOAP

vs.

REST. I'll assume based on the threads I've seen lately that most
folks would prefer to use JSON, therefore REST as opposed to SOAP
which would use XML.



This will be entirely IBM i based software with both traditional
languages/objects and some open source components as well. DB2 will
be the database of record.



Thoughts?





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Jim Oberholtzer

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