TITLE: RESTful Web 2.0 overtaking SOAP?

DATE: 01 Dec 2007

SOURCE: ZDNet

URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service...

Editor's Summary: A debate is raging in the blogsphere as to whether the popularity of Web 2.0 applications built using Representational State Transfer (REST) represents a threat to not only the traditional SOAP-based Web services but the all WS* standards for service-oriented architecture (SOA), writes Joe McKendrick. However, he said in his work as an analyst for Evans Data Corp., SOAP and WS* still have a strong presence in enterprise SOA, where developers use SOAP or REST based on which is best suited for a particular application.
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