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On 8/24/2016 7:47 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 24-Aug-16 7:17 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If you are integrating with an ESB in the 100K$ per CPU license
>> class then they love contract first WSDL and SOAP with lots of
>> extra WS-* standards.
>
> If your Aunt had balls she'd be your Uncle.
>
> The Jury's been and gone; the verdict is REST.

Different contexts means different choices.

There are a lot more smartphones and web browsers out there
than expensive ESB's, but that does not make those ESB's
non-existant.

> What, if anything, takes the place of WS-Transaction et al is yet to be
> seen.

Theoretical approach is that RESTful implies no need for transactions
so a need for transaction not true RESTful.

In practice I think many solutions use a compensating model
for recovery.

Arne