[Webservices] example REST webservice

[Hank Ratzesberger]

An interesting article by Tim O'Reilly discussing the 
so called "Web 2.0" says that REST fits well into the 
its lighter-weight, easier to adapt/append principles: 

Similarly, Amazon.com's web services are provided in two forms: 
one adhering to the formalisms of the SOAP (Simple Object Access 
Protocol) web services stack, the other simply providing XML data 
over HTTP, in a lightweight approach sometimes referred to as REST 
(Representational State Transfer). While high value B2B connections 
(like those between Amazon and retail partners like ToysRUs) use 
the SOAP stack, Amazon reports that 95% of the usage is of the 
lightweight REST service.

http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

One thing about REST is you can look at them with a browser. 
This delivers the list of video streams with an 
<?xsl-stylesheet ?> instruction so that browsers render formatted
html (but view/source and you'll see it's XML).

--Hank

Hank Ratzesberger
NEES Programmer
Institute for Crustal Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
805.893.8042
805.893.8649 (fax)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanna Muench" <joanna at iris.washington.edu>
To: <webservices at iris.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:14 AM
Subject: [Webservices] example REST webservice


> While we mostly covered SOAP web services at the workshop, there are 
> currently more REST services available. I was at the FGIT meeting last 
> week (Forum for Geoscience Infrastructure) and attended a lively 
> discussion on SOAP vs. REST. Like so many of these things, the answer 
> was "it depends".
> 
> One of the participants showed me how his group is using REST within 
> their web site: http://www.dlese.org/dds/services/. The web site also 
> includes a nice JSP template with examples.
> 
> Joanna
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