December 2006
» The SOA with reach: Web-Oriented Architecture | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
The only real difference between traditional SOA and the concept of WOA is that WOA advocates REST, an increasingly popular, powerful, and simple method of leveraging HTTP as a Web service in its own right (and carefully devised by the co-creator of HTTP, Roy Fielding.)
November 2006
September 2005
July 2005
Fielding Dissertation: CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)
This chapter introduces and elaborates the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems, describing the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, while contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles.
February 2005
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