Article:		Constructing or Traversing URIs?
Subject:		Great series
Date:		2005-04-21 14:10:20
From:		PatrickFoley
Thanks for a great series on REST so far, Joe. My head is spinning. Can't wait for the next one. An issue I'd like to know more about - how should we best implement SOAP and RESTful interfaces that can live together? The Amazon Q post mentioned that they tried to have both. I wonder if there are useful patterns to accomplish it well. It seems to me that the actual functionality behind RESTful interfaces - the actual code - can be rather separate from the protocol. I'm wondering if it should be as a general rule. I'm wondering if it would typically be useful to create a procedural "core" that is then wrapped with RPC-style SOAP interfaces as well as RESTful ones. I haven't implemented a truly RESTful system yet (other than static sites, of course), so I don't quite yet have a feel for the implementation behind the protocol. That's my favorite part of your series so far - it's very technical, yet you've only shown a couple of pieces of code. It's the externally visible interface that matters, not the internal implementation. But now I'd like to get some ideas about pure implementation ideas. Unfortunately, that tends to be platform-specific. Thanks again, Patrick Foley

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