Those of you who’ve worked on very large scale enterprise-wide architectures know that it’s always the people and politics that are the biggest hurdles. I came across the term “politecture” in Nick Malik’s blog here. You can follow the link for the definition, but it’s essentially an architecture that’s been designed with the influence of [...]
The RESTful approach is very attractive for large scale integration scenarios that cross many organizational boundaries. This is because the constraints imposed by the REST principles emphasize interoperability and scalability. The constraint of uniform interfaces supports those scenarios in which the consumer base for the services is so broad that it makes it difficult to [...]
The SOAP WS-* approach provides a broad set of standards and specifications for quality of service features and also gives developers a lot of flexibility to define custom interfaces for the services that they wish to expose. This flexibility is useful for application-to-application integration scenarios internal to an organization. This is also useful in scenarios [...]
