Re: SOAP vs. REST

["Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon, thanks.  My choice among the ones you suggested would be Python.  

I'll look into that. 


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:10 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] SOAP vs. REST

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

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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