Re: SOAP vs. REST

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

REST for sure.  And personally I would not use IWS for a multitude of reasons.  I love it for proof of concept stuff but I'd rather "roll my own" using PHP, node, Python or RPG.

 
Jon Paris

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> On Jul 10, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Folks:
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> Thoughts?
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> Jim Oberholtzer
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> Agile Technology Architects
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