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\n\nDon Box gives us his\ntwo cents<\/a>\non a Microsoft-internal “REST vs. SOA(P)” debate;<\/p>\n\n The following design decisions are orthogonal, even though people often conflate two or more of them:<\/p>\n\n Some of the decisions (specifically 5) are architectural and sometimes philosophical.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n I don’t know about that. Numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5 are architectural, as all impact\neither the components, connectors, or data of the system. Only number 3 isn’t, since\nit’s an implementation detail. Number 2 is debateable I suppose, but most Web services\nbased uses of XML schemas I’ve seen involves removing descriptive information from the\nmessage in deference to an implicit pointer to a WSDL document (and therefore a schema).<\/p>\n\n He also added;<\/p>\n\n Of course, religious debates should always be avoided. But architectural debates\nshould not, and REST vs. SOA(P) is an architectural debate. Period. If anybody thinks\nthis is a religious debate, you simply haven’t done your\nhomework<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Also of interest, his advice was preceded by this qualifier;<\/p>\n\n Hah, that’s a good one 8-) Resistance is futile. You can’t fight\nloose coupling<\/a>,\nman. It’s infectious. Muhaha!<\/p>\n\n Tags:\nsoap<\/a>,\nrest<\/a>,\nmicrosoft<\/a>,\nwebservices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don Box gives us his two cents on a Microsoft-internal “REST vs. SOA(P)” debate; The following design decisions are orthogonal, even though people often conflate two or more of them: Whether one uses SOAP or POX (plain-old-XML). Whether or not one publishes an XML schema for their formats. Whether or not one generates static language […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,26,40],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-soap","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nIf you want to reach both audiences before your competition does, you’ll avoid indulging in religious debates and ship something.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nIn hopes I never have to address this debate again, […]\n<\/blockquote>\n\n