Explaining REST to Damien Katz

2008-08-17

This is an excellent summary of REST, why SOAP services should be considered broken and why your services should be RESTful.  One overlooked benefit of REST: interacting with the HTTP ecosystem correctly.  You might not be using a caching proxy on the server-side but if your clients want to use a caching proxy, making your service RESTful means it will behave correctly in unexpected, but legitimate, network architectures.

One fact I did not know: PUT is idempotent, POST is not.

Explaining REST to Damien Katz