Conclusions
The computer industry has been doing electronic data interchange for years. Web services is a way of standardizing and turning it into Remote Procedure Calls, using ubiquitous web servers and XML. REST is a way of simplifying that, re-using existing HTTP protocols instead of inventing new ones.
The two giants of the Web, Amazon and Google, both concluded that UDDI and SOAP were not suitable for exposure in their Beta web services initiatives. Google layered a completely new, and much simpler custom library on top. Amazon provided thousands of lines of sample code in 35 Java files. But they also supported the REST approach which the overwhelming majority of their Beta users prefer.
Web services have always been led from in front ...
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