While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

NetKernel not only makes it easy to build RESTful systems in Java and other languages that run on the JVM; it also changes the way you think about tying components together. So far this series has ...

Invoking behavior vs. managing information Although there is room for overlap, SOAP is mostly useful for invoking behavior, while REST is good for managing information. REST can be abused to do ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...