Web service standards: SOAP, REST, OData, and more

as I previously described, SOAP is strictly speaking a message format.

the developers were being asked to work with SOAP on a rope.

is handled by the underlying SOAP library implementation.

and web service repositories became commonplace.

more text than slimmer message formats, such as JSON.

of the principal authors of the HTTP specification.

described in HTTP not all requests are equal.

Unlike SOAP, RESTful services don't all use the same message format.

Meaning that each request response conversation stands on its own.

they consume.

Where network bandwidth and storage aren't at so high a premium.

making it, in many cases, easier to code.

the web services world that are worth knowing about.

are used to describe SOAP-based services UDDI is used to make them discoverable.

organization named The Web Services Interoperability Organization.

investigation, so you can learn more about the standards that matter to you.