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REST vs. SOAP

Kevin Daily offers a brief thought on REST vs. SOAP in the case of the Amazon Web Services.

We are still seeing an 80% REST / 20% SOAP usage pattern. Kevin correctly notes that the ease with which developers can invoke an XSLT transformation as the concluding step in a REST request makes for easier and simpler web development.

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I completely agree.

The XSLT piece is the tipping point because then you don't really have to worry about parsing any troublesome XML, or dealing with an XSLT library/engine on your own.

I use REST/XSLT for my two main amazon tools that I wrote.

Simple and easy!

ill have to investigate this rest,didnt realise that there was such a high usage of it

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