Is REST the next Spring?

1 · Oliver Drotbohm · Dec. 4, 2008, 5:25 p.m.
Browsing the latest JavaMagazin leader written by Stefan Tilkov, I stumbled about a phrase in his abstract, that triggered some thought I wanna share with you. Stefan claims REST to be a more lightweight approach to web services than SOAP. First I have to admit, that I clearly favour REST style webservices over SOAP one, too. The projects I worked with them were clearly less cluttered, less overheaded, and the API much more close to the domain concepts compared to those rumbling with SOAP. But b...