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#1 greg14

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Posted 30 December 2008 - 08:41 AM

Could I use RESTful client for all web services or only for those that are created using REST?

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#2 Dan_Maharry

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 03:05 PM

Using a RESTful client implies that it only calls web services in a RESTful way and that they understand the way they are being called. Ditto for SOAP clients and services.

In other words, no. RESTful clients won't send requests to SOAP services phrased using SOAP XML. The client may understand how to deal with the response enveloped in the SOAP XML however.

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Posted 22 August 2009 - 01:35 AM

QUOTE (keithfer15 @ Aug 20 2009, 06:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

webservices are very very important in remotes, this is the first foot steps to WCF which is the latesting technology in distributed computing

It's worth noting however that WCF is not built for REST. There is an WCF add-on pack for REST support but the opinions I've read say that it's not too brilliant.

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