{"id":496,"date":"2004-10-14T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/10\/14\/john-mcdowall-on-publicprivate-interfaces\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T14:48:00","slug":"john-mcdowall-on-publicprivate-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/10\/john-mcdowall-on-publicprivate-interfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"John McDowall on public\/private interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdowall.com\/2004\/10\/public-versus-private-interfaces.html\">He writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nPerhaps REST versus WS is really about private and public interfaces.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly right, but exactly opposite of what he suggests; that\nSOA is better for public interfaces, while REST is better for private.<\/p>\n\n<p>REST&#8217;s uniform interface is superior for public interfaces because\nits semantics are, well,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc2616.txt\">public<\/a>.  Each new\ninterface that is presented to a customer via SOAP\/WSDL introduces a\nbarrier to entry because the customer has to learn the semantics of\nthat interface.  Reusing a pervasively deployed one presents no such\nbarrier.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He writes; Perhaps REST versus WS is really about private and public interfaces. That&#8217;s exactly right, but exactly opposite of what he suggests; that SOA is better for public interfaces, while REST is better for private. REST&#8217;s uniform interface is superior for public interfaces because its semantics are, well, public. Each new interface that is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}