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Thoughts and experiences from an Enterprise Software Developer and Architect hiding in plain sight as a Technical Program Manager
InfoQ have posted a very interesting interview with Sanjiva Weerawarana which (if people actually bother to read and understand it) does shed some light on the seemingly never-ending REST/WS-* debate.
http://www.infoq.com/articles/sanjiva-rest-myths
The key point in the whole interview for me is this quote from Sanjiva, and which emphasising why REST-vs-WS-* ior REST-vs-SOA are spurious questions by comparing apples-to-oranges:
The real question is whether resource oriented architectures and service oriented architecture are one and the same. I assert that they're not: given a distributed systems problem one can develop solutions using either approach and the artifacts that result would be radically different.
This mirrors the theme of a presentation I gave 4 years ago pointing out some of the differences between resource-oriented and service-oriented architectires. and matched by some comments from that time acknowledging that, while I don't agree that REST is the "one-and-only-true-way" to write distributed systems, that there ARE indeed cases where REST is a good choice.
http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/presentations/arch-styles/3-arch-styles.pdf
Of course, I don't expect the fanatical RESTafarians to ever achnowledge the corollary - that there are indeed cases where "pure" SOA-style is a good choice, so I guess the cycle of war will continue to repeat itself!
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