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Jim Webber on REST vs. Web Services

Stefan Tilkov,

Still working through my blog post backlog, I found Jim Webber's article on webservices.org pretty good. A minor thing: he points out some 'disadvantages' of REST:

  • REST-amenable transports only
  • Semantics coupled to payload and transfer mode

I would argue that these are not disadvantages, but merely differences; but I can see that one's mileage may vary.