Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Henrik RÃtzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What simple REST services do is to provide the client the right to chain,
read, write, update and delete in the database - do you really want to
package that into a complex SOAP structure with WDLS an so ? How many hours
of click click click in EGL do you think it will take you to make lets say
6000 SOAP services ?




On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Henrik RÃtzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> you obviously dosn't have a clue of the security issues a REST enabled
> application
> has to handle - HTTPS dosn't solve anything and SOAP is out of the question
> when
> you talk about iPhone Apps that has to "speak" with 50 REST services on the
> server.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > On 11/21/2010 1:38 PM, Henrik RÃtzou wrote:
> > > I'm still waiting for an answer on how EGL handles security ?
> > That's really not a question, Henrik.  It's a discussion topic <smile>.
> > "Security" as in what?  Authentication?  Authorization?  For thin client
> > EGL uses JSF which has a robust security framework.  For REST
> > communications the simplest method is HTTPS.  Is there something above
> > that which you need?  Because to me REST is typically used to
> > communicate between tiers of an application rather than to external
> > consumers.  Externally I would use SOAP, which also has very robust
> > security.
> >
> > I guess I'm asking "what is the business requirement" and "what are we
> > comparing it to"?
> >
> > Joe
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