Wednesday March 09, 2005 Web services too complex? Relax, REST architectural style is catching on
In our Sun President/COO, Jonathan Schwartz's, blog entry about the take-away messages from the CEOs and CIOs gathered at the Sun Executive Advisory Council, he mentioned about the complexity of Web services causing the technology to not catch on as fast as it should be.
5. Web services may collapse under its own weight. No one at the conference said this. Those are my words. I'm beginning to feel that all the disparate web service specs and fragmented standards activities are way out of control. Want proof? Ask one of your IT folks to define web services. Ask two others. They won't match. We asked folks around the room - it was pretty grim. It's either got to be simplified, or radically rethought.See: Jonathan Schwartz' Blog Entry: Executive Advisory Council #5 The possible simple Web service architecture that will save the day is the REST architectural style. See: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/01/restful-web.html REST is used by Amazon and Flickr for their Web services and today's developers (by far) use REST instead of XML-RPC or SOAP. Example of how REST is used:
Simple stuff. Good for Java and J2ME technology-enabled cell phones.
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