On 12/19/06, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hang on Mark, if someone turns off the server then you don't get a > 404, you get nothing at all. With a SOAP client you get a SOAP fault > from the client due to non-connection, with REST you get _nothing_ > which doesn't fit into the 404 processing.
SOAP faults aren't raised by the client library, they're raised by the service. The client gets the same information in both the cases you describe. How the client library chooses to present that information to the client code has nothing at all to do with either the protocol in use, nor the architectural style which was used to craft it. Anyhow, I wasn't responding to Steve's question about losing a service, but to Alex's about making switching services simpler. Mark.
