On 11/24/06, Stefan Tilkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that using your terminology, I'm advocating ROA instead of > SOA. Using Steve's terminology, I prefer REST as an implementation > architecture for (business) SOA as opposed to WS-*. > > Stefan
Stefan That's what I meant about having your cake and eating it. One of the main aims of business SOA is to keep existing legacy services and make them available to the rest of the enterprise as services. POX and SOAP are great ways of doing that because many existing legacy applications have simple transactional interfaces that can be mapped to XML in / XML out. Mapping those APIs into Resources so that you can apply REST is NOT the same thing, and is not what is meant by business SOA. And if those companies did a POX approach you would be the first to say that it isn't REST :-) So what I'm asking is that you be as clear with yourself about what REST is applicable to as you are with everyone else about what REST isn't applicable to! Paul
