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Cesare Pautasso
Cesare Pautasso is assistant professor in the new Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he was a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab and a senior researcher at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on building experimental systems to explore the intersection of model-driven software composition techniques, business process modeling languages, and autonomic/Grid computing. Recently he has developed an interest in Web 2.0 Mashups and Architectural Decision Modeling. He is the lead architect of JOpera, a powerful rapid service composition tool for Eclipse. His teaching and training activities both in academia and in industry cover advanced topics related to Web Development, Middleware, Service Oriented Architectures and emerging Web services technologies. For more information, visit www.pautasso.info. |
"REST vs. SOAP: Making the Right Architectural Decision"
Speaker: Cesare Pautasso
Track: SOA & REST
Recent technology trends in Web services indicate that a solution eliminating the perceived complexity of the WS-* standard technology stack may be in sight: advocates of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) have come to believe that their ideas explaining why the World Wide Web works are just as applicable to solve enterprise application integration problems and to radically simplify the plumbing required to build service-oriented architectures.
In this talk we take a very detailed look at the WS-* vs. REST debate by presenting a technical comparison based on architectural principles and decisions. We show how the two approaches differ in the number of architectural decisions that must be made and in the number of available design alternatives each provides.
We will also reveal the truth behind the *perceived* complexity differences between these two architectural styles and we will demonstrate that there are very real consequences of choosing one over the other, resulting in both development and maintenance impacts. Our comparison helps technical decision makers to assess these two technology frameworks objectively and to select the one that best fits their needs.
