SOAP vs. REST

Folks:



I'm about to do an incredibly scary thing, start to develop my own software
that includes the use of IWS. To suggest I'm starting from the beginning is
at best charitable. I can architect the software, that's easy. Actually
doing the development, my RPG credentials were revoked a long time ago, so
there's that learning curve. Then there are some decisions to be made in the
architecture. To that end:



So as part of the software planning process the question comes up SOAP vs.
REST. I'll assume based on the threads I've seen lately that most folks
would prefer to use JSON, therefore REST as opposed to SOAP which would use
XML.



This will be entirely IBM i based software with both traditional
languages/objects and some open source components as well. DB2 will be the
database of record.



Thoughts?





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Jim Oberholtzer

Agile Technology Architects