Steve, If I listed a handful of references, then you'd ask "where are the stats to show they are not outliers?" I know all too well after all these years that NOTHING will convince you of anything. And I'm sure you feel the same way. :-)
The survey was done, I assume, by informationweek. But Gartner has done similar surveys that show REST growing steadily in our enterprise client base over the years. -- Nick PS Gervas, Is this sig good enough? :-) [Yes, thank you gsd] Nick Gall Phone: +1.781.608.5871 Twitter: ironick [I thought Americans did not do "irony". :)) Gervas Moderator] AOL IM: Nicholas Gall Yahoo IM: nick_gall_1117 MSN IM: (same as email) Google Talk: (same as email) Email: nick.gall AT-SIGN gmail DOT com Weblog: http://ironick.typepad.com/ironick/ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yet the only reference in the article is someone using WS-* and only > looking at REST. It's a nice figure but where are the references? The > article reads like "look REST is simple, but the only guy who would go on > record is doing the other stuff, but he is thinking about REST so that > proves it". Did you do the survey? > > Steve > > Sent from my iPad > > On 30 Jul 2010, at 01:38, Nick Gall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Steve Jones > <jones.steveg@<[email protected]> > gmail.com> wrote: > >> References? I've dealt with a bunch in the last few years and see REST a >> couple of times and always limited to the web side. Meanwhile I've seen >> huge, massive WS-* programmes in lots of different enterprises. On the >> references side there are stacks for WS-* but I'm still struggling to find >> REST enterprise integration examples, but I look forward to reading them. >> > > <http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214501922> > http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214501922: > > But our take--supported by survey results and discussions with a wide range > of stakeholders--is that many companies are moving forward with SOA > implementations, though a significant number have decided to shift course > and take the path of least resistance. In essence, that means building their > SOAs on the Web, using Internet-delivered APIs, and swapping in more agile > REST-based Web services as a simpler alternative to heavyweight SOAP-based > Web services where appropriate. In fact, when asked to indicate their past, > present, and estimated future use of SOAP-based Web services vs. REST-based > Web services, *respondents show a marked drop-off in use of SOAP, from 54% > a year ago to a projected 42% in the next 18 months. The number primarily > using or considering REST-based Web services is predicted to grow by a > proportional amount, from 14% to 24% over the same time frame.* > > Slow but steady attrition for SOAP and slow but steady growth for REST... > > >
