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Esri Proceedings

2009 Developer Summit

SOAP vs. REST: Complementary or Competitive?

—David Chappell, Principal, Chappell & Associates

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Two approaches to creating Web services are in use today, and both have ardent fans. One, using SOAP and the WS-* specifications, follows in the footsteps of earlier distributed computing technologies. The other, the RESTful style, is explicitly based on the principles of the Web itself. Which is better? David Chappell searches for the answer in this keynote presentation.

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