{"id":1622,"date":"2006-08-13T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/the-unsittable-fence\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T02:22:44","slug":"the-unsittable-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/the-unsittable-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"The unsittable fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Little explains why he&#8217;s a proud <a href=\"http:\/\/markclittle.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/mac-os-versus-windows-and-their.html\">fence sitter<\/a> in the REST vs. WS-* debate;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/markclittle.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/mac-os-versus-windows-and-their.html\">\nI&#8217;ve never believed in the one-size fits all argument; REST has simplicity\/manageability to offer in certain circumstances and WS-* works better in others. As far as distributed internet-based computing is concerned, REST is probably closer to Mac OS X and that makes WS-* the Windows. For what people want to do today I think REST is at the sweet spot I mentioned earlier. But as application requirements get more complex, WS-* takes over. We shouldn&#8217;t lose sight of the fact that they can compliment each other: it need not be a case of eiher one or the other.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Ah yes, more of the inaccurate <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mikechampion\/archive\/2006\/02\/17\/534509.aspx\">trucks vs cars<\/a>-style comparisons.  In truth, SOA no more complements REST than a musket complements an M4, or an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edsel\">Edsel<\/a> complements a BMW.  REST is an <em>improvement<\/em> upon SOA in the general case, plain and simple.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Little explains why he&#8217;s a proud fence sitter in the REST vs. WS-* debate; I&#8217;ve never believed in the one-size fits all argument; REST has simplicity\/manageability to offer in certain circumstances and WS-* works better in others. As far as distributed internet-based computing is concerned, REST is probably closer to Mac OS X and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,25,38],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-soa","tag-webservices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","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=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}