Developing Web Services Choreography Standards – The Case of REST vs. SOAP

, Jun 14, 2004

Jean-Jacques Dubray, whom I can’t link to correctly because I can’t find the URI for the relevant blog entry in his newsfeed, points to this excellent paper by zur Muehlen, Nickerson and Swenson about BPM standards, REST, and SOAP — truly fascinating not because of its technical merits (although it has those as well), but because of the analysis of how standards get created.

On June 23, 2004 1:56 AM, Michael zur Muehlen said:

Hi Stefan,

I’m glad you found the paper and thank you very much for the positive comments - they are much appreciated. You may be interested to know that we published a second paper at a workshop last year that deals with the issue of standardization in a more general sense. A journal version of this paper is currently under review. The original workshop paper can be downloaded here: http://www.workflow-research.de/Publications/JENI.MIZU-ICIS-WS(2003).pdf

Best regards

Michael

On June 24, 2004 2:17 AM, Michael zur Muehlen said:

Hi Stefan,

Glad you found the paper, and thanks for the nice comments. You may be interested to know that Jeff and I wrote a second paper on the issue of web services standardization, which focuses more on the game theoretic moves of standards players. A revised version of this paper is currently under revision by an academic journal, but a workshop version of the paper can be downloaded at http://www.workflow-research.de/Publications/PDF/JENI.MIZU-ICIS-WS(2003).pdf

Best regards

Michael