More on the Stateful - RESTful Debate

TechTarget has a couple of good articles, and the transcript of a conversation between advocates of Stateful and RESTful web services (respectively).  The transcript is a little bit hokey, but worth reading.

The ServerSide Interoperability Blog » Stateful Web Services - They really work!

About a month ago, I wrote a blog entry here discussing stateful web services, and how EJB3 more or less removed the commonly used J2EE hack, in using the serialized EJB2.1 Stateful Session Bean Handle as a session token of sorts. I mentioned how JAX-WS added support for a WS-Addressing-based stateful SOAP endpoint - the first truly “automated” and SOAP-compliant manner of providing sessions in SOAP. Now… we have sample code! It really is dead-simple, a testament to the WSIT group (Project Tango), working between Sun and Microsoft to make JAX-WS and the Windows Communication Framework in .Net 3.0 play nicely. ...

Neward and Trenaman consider REST, or The Great and Complete SOAP vs POX Debate

How far can you go with GET, PUT, POST, DELETE? Much of the programming world asks the question. Here in one place are the complete collected episodes from Ted Neward’s and Adrian Trenaman’s recent conversation on the matter of SOAP and POX. ...

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