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

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2010 5:41 PM, Henrik RÃtzou wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't need 6000 services.  In fact, I don't need anything nearly as 
cumbersome as that.  I need one or two services per object - one for 
list operations and another for CRUD operations.  A typical application 
might require a couple of dozen services.

And you keep gliding between REST and SOAP, but I find them to be very 
different.  I use SOAP for external transactions which require 
authorization and authentication on a transaction-by-transaction basis 
and REST for inter-tier communications where the authorization is done 
at the application level.

I don't think you and I agree on what a service architecture is supposed 
to be.

Seriously.  6000 services?  Dude.

Joe