CHAPTER 4
RESTful Web Services
This chapter explains the principles that conquer the enterprise integration world. It’s about Representational State Transfer, or REST.
The evolution of distributed systems didn’t stop with remoting and web services. SOAP allowed high decoupling, which solved a major problem of remoting technologies. As a successor of remoting technologies, SOAP web services were adopted by big enterprise companies. Cooperation between distributed development teams was enhanced, because SOAP web services rely on contracts. A well-defined XSD/WSDL contract can help avoid ambiguities or sanitize poor communication between developers ...
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