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At a recent meeting of the New England Tech Professionals Network, we were fortunate to have Jeremy Deane of Collaborative Consulting deliver a presentation entitled, “Implementing REST, and RESTful Web Services.”

Jeremy is a Technical Architect with 12 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and frequent contributor to the SOA Institute. The talk was attended by 25 people, and included an excellent slide-deck and demo. It spawned some deep conversation and networking opportunities for all involved.

An increasing industry backlash to the mounting complexity of the WS-* SOAP specifications is resulting in many organizations considering RESTful Web Services. In fact, a recent poll by Information Week found that 58% of IT professionals believed that SOA introduced more complexity and resulted in cost overruns. Some industry pundits, such as Tim Bray echo this sentiment declaring WS-* an embarrassing failure. We’ll keep an eye on REST and the oppportunities it brings to the development community.

photo by House of Sims

Tags: REST, Software development, Web Services

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