I normally give developer topics a wide berth on this blog, but I got the tip from James Fee that the presentation by David Chappell at the recent ESRI Developer Summit was not to be missed.
For me this is by far the best distillation of the key differences (pros and cons) between SOAP and REST that I have come across. It not only acts as an excellent layman's guide to those two topics, but also describes, in an easy to follow way, how they relate to additional topics including: WS-*, WSDL, WCF, XML, HTTP, GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, JSON, SSL, ACID, JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, Java Server Faces and ASP.NET.
It also introduced me to the term idempotent and I particularly liked his final conclusion: "The best decisions come from reason, not emotion"
About Me
- Graeme Browning
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- I started writing the PolyGeo blog with support from my employer, NGIS Australia, about 22 years after first encountering GIS software while working with the South Australian Museum. In between, my career has included working for the South Australian Department of Environment and Planning (Australia's first ESRI user site) and 18 years with ESRI International Distributors (UK and Australia). I hope that the perspective I bring, of someone who has seen GIS evolve over nearly a quarter of a century after formal education in Systematic Zoology at the University of Adelaide, is one that that will enable PolyGeo to find its niche in the Geospatial blogosphere. While developer topics will occasionally be discussed, PolyGeo is primarily a blog intended for prospective users of the many GIS products, both COTS and Open Source, that are encountered by the Australian spatial community. Deciding which spatial product(s) can best meet business and technical requirements can be a bewildering exercise.
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