Re: A question of choice

2011-06-29 Thread Sergey Beryozkin
Hi On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, David Sills dsi...@datasourceinc.com wrote: All: A question for designers out there who wish to opine on best practices or advise me about an upcoming issue: we have an essentially RPC web service being considered for conversion to a RESTful one. Apologies

RE: A question of choice

2011-06-29 Thread David Sills
Thanks, Sergey, I'll give these suggestions some thought. I agree there is probably some refactoring involved, but for the moment the client is happy with the performance of the service and with the simplicity of the API from their client code's point of view (of course, that simply means the

Re: A question of choice

2011-06-29 Thread Glen Mazza
On 06/27/2011 10:53 AM, David Sills wrote: So now the questions: 1. Can or should this service be converted to REST? 2. Can it be converted to REST as is, or should it be broken up into smaller pieces (not sure the client would agree to that)? 3. Can REST handle the amount of data a GET request

A question of choice

2011-06-27 Thread David Sills
All: A question for designers out there who wish to opine on best practices or advise me about an upcoming issue: we have an essentially RPC web service being considered for conversion to a RESTful one. Apologies for the length of the post before it even begins: The current SOAP web service,

Re: A question of choice

2011-06-27 Thread Sergey Beryozkin
HI Thanks for this info, I'll try to get back to later during the next few days Cheers, Sergey On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, David Sills dsi...@datasourceinc.com wrote: All: A question for designers out there who wish to opine on best practices or advise me about an upcoming issue: we