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In the world of componentized applications, the most enduring debate seems to be the one between service-oriented architecture and representational state transfer. Here we look at which comes out on ...

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The catfight between SOAP and RESTful Web services has pretty much been settled in favor of REST, with the recent trend of cloud providers, such as Amazon and Google, moving their APIs from SOAP to ...

RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present some ...

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients. Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is an architectural ...