WS-* vs the REST
Listening to: Maria’s Bed - Bruce Springsteen
The Register as an insightful interview with
Tim O’Reilly and Amazon’s web services evangelist Jeff Barr on how they see the REST
vs WS debate:
What of the idea that simple approaches like REST are fine for non-critical
websites but won’t work in the enterprise?
I think it is misguided. Doesn’t that remind you a bit of “PCs will never work
in the enterprise, the personal computer is a toy?” I feel that disregarding the simple
bottom-up stuff is a recipe for companies to fail. Simple bottom-up stuff is a driver
of the future. You need to figure out how to layer more complexity on top of that
and add value to it, rather than present this big heavyweight solution that is theoretically
better.
