Volition

A good introduction to REST. REST just makes so much sense when writing web applications, bit both the programmer and the user. Especially when compared to XML-RPC and especially SOAP.

I wonder if the reason why programmers tend to stray away from RESTful web programming is becuase RPC-like mechanisms like SOAP and XML-RPC are more like traditional, procedural programming - developers are just more familar with it.

For example: http://web.vee.net/doFoo?bar=1&baz=2 is similar to a function or method in a typical programming language. A Java equivalent might have a signature which looks like: public boolean doFoo(String bar, String baz);.

As one of these developers, this does make a lot of sense to me, but only in a traditional programming environment, not a web environment. You lose access control, caching, loose coupling, transparency and a bunch of other things by not building RESTful web apps. But don't take my word for it, read the presentation above.