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Today I got an email from Peter, a listener of my podcast with the subject "REST vs Web Services mp3 discussion - Thanks!".
"Hello Mr. Dahan,
I just wanted to let you know that I found your discussion on REST vs. Web services very interesting. Two years ago, I got to learn about Web services and WSDL, in order to figure out if I can use that to communicate
between two application servers. Unfortunately, at that time, I discovered
the way we were accessing the server, was for development only, and there
was no production support for Web services on the server at that time.
Thinking for the future, after hearing your discussion on REST, I'm going
to start researching more information on it, to see if maybe I can use
that method to transport information.
Do you know of any websites I can go to to learn more about this?
About your show, please spell out your email and website for us. I was
listening to it in the car on mp3, and had no idea on how to contact you.
Thank you.
Peter *****
Web developer (XHTML, Java, Javascript, XML)"
Well, Peter, thank you for your kind words. It's really great knowing that I'm not just shouting into the endless void of the internet and that what I'm saying makes a difference. And I will take your suggestions to heart about spelling out the site and email. Who knew people would have a hard time spelling UdiDahan? It sounds just how its spelled :)
About the sites on REST - well there are a lot. Although most are quite superficial - nothing that would show you how to implement anything but a trivial application. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure that the REST architectural style jives with transaction processing that well. I have yet to see an example that both models the system entities as URIs and can transactionally update several of them at once.
Anyway, Peter, thanks again. And best of luck with your REST excursions.
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