Who Rules Web Services? SOAP or REST?

LAS VEGAS ? So, which style of service enablement is better: SOAP or REST?

A pair of programming experts tried to put that debateto rest March 27 during a talk at The ServerSide Symposium here. TedNeward, founder of Neward & Associates consulting and trainingcompany, and Brian Sletten, a partner with Zepheira, a Web 2.0enablement and software development shop, argued the benefits anddrawbacks of both Simple Object Access Protocol and RepresentationalState Transfer.

Sletten and Neward discussed the benefits of Webservices and how the vision behind them is solid in the goal to deliverreusable business functionality, platform and language independence,asynchronous processes, coordinated business systems, long-runningtransactions, and multipartner orchestrations and integration.

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