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Mon, 07 Apr 2003

Amazon's REST Interface #
Tim O'Reilly recently blogged that, in a conversation with Jeff Barr (Amazon's chief web services evangelist), although Amazon has both REST and SOAP interfaces, 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. I too prefer the HTTP + XML approach in creating hypermedia systems and maybe that is because, like most people, I prefer its lower barriers to implementation.

This topic has been picked-up by the www-tag mailing list, and Noah Mendelsohn has some interesting observations about the current lack of SOAP infrastructure, but I still believe that REST will remain dominant simply because it is simple yet powerful and takes advantage of existing technologies. |/xml|