RELAXed Web Services is a particularly robust candidate for use as a web service provider because of its tight integration with the Drupal Deploy ecosystem and the CouchDB specification. This means that architects and developers can employ RELAXed Web Services for a variety of content staging scenarios as well as for content delivery to consumers. RELAXed Web Services has better support than core REST in areas such as translations, revisions, and file attachments.
As mentioned in Chapter 8, it is entirely possible to leverage RELAXed Web Services without the Workspaces module and the rest ...