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Why REST Rules

Posted by garym on Thu, 03/25/2004 - 14:52

Jon Udell offers a nifty new bookmarklet to boost your use of your local library catalog, and in the process finds an elegant and compelling argument for why the future of information technology webservices needs the REST paradigm:

When I showed one librarian why her OPAC system wouldn't cooperate with LibraryLookup, she concluded that her vendor had used "the wrong kind of software." And I agreed. She has never read Roy Fielding's thesis and never will, but she groks the REST principles intuitively. What she was saying, though she lacked the terminology to describe it, is that her OPAC is broken because it's not RESTful. And if she has any say in the matter, the next OPAC her library buys will be.

[ Source: The Beauty of REST ]

IDC: Webservices Support To Top $1B

Posted by garym on Sun, 04/06/2003 - 23:32

IDC forecasts the North America Web Services Professional Services spending is soon to break the billion-dollar mark , and while some significant block of this is likely vanishing into stacked consulting sold to the unwary buyers who may not understand the RPC/REST distinction, when you are talking 10-figure spending, there's also a lot of big endorsement and ROI proofs going on.  read more »

RESTful Web services

Posted by garym on Wed, 03/05/2003 - 20:58

Robert McMillan of NetworkWorld has posted a very useful primer on the Representational State Transfer (REST) alternative to the SOAP paradigm for delivering webservices; if you need to hand someone an executive summary for why you don't need to retool your enterprise with expensive new servers and expensive new .NET clients, then this is the URL you will want to bookmark: A RESTful approach to Web services.  read more »

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Cognos Webservices

Posted by garym on Fri, 08/16/2002 - 15:28

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Dave Fletcher\'s Government and Technology Weblog reports Ottawa\'s data-mining Cognos is now shipping a SOAP-based webservices package for bridging their software with supply chain management and collaboration packages. Canada may not be completely dark-ages after all, although I can just about imagine the Zambonini-frown that might have met any suggestion it could all be done RESTfully in HTTP; at least it shows they\'ve got webservicing in their plans.

Full Story: eWeek: Cognos embraces Webservices'

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