James Kovacs

Why Developers Are Interested in REST

I'm doing some WCF work for a client, specifically around WS-Security. I stumbled upon the System.ServiceModel.MessageSecurityVersion class today. Its static properties alone should explain why developers are craving simpler technologies like REST...

Published Aug 08 2008, 12:59 PM by james.kovacs

Filed under: Miscellaneous

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Shankar said:

I subscribe to your thoughts.

I am tired of reading MS documentation too many classes and methods.

# August 9, 2008 11:54 AM

CoqBlog said:

Ce post de James Kovacs m'a fait rire :p : Why Developers Are Interested in REST Du coup si vous vous

# August 10, 2008 6:35 AM

Colin Jack said:

Great stuff.

# August 10, 2008 8:48 AM

Ewild said:

Thank God for intelisence!

# August 11, 2008 9:17 AM

Caleb Jenkins said:

Well good golly! I'm pretty sure that not even Intellisence is going to get you through that quagmire!

... and darn, I think I needed the WS Security 11 WS Trust WS Secure Conversation *March 2008 CTP* WS Security Policy 11 Basic Security Profile 10.3

so close. ;)

# August 11, 2008 4:02 PM

Greg Beech said:

Um, OK, but you're missing the point that this is functionality way over-and-above what you get out of the box with REST-style services.

REST-style services don't provide this sort of security functionality. If you want it you have to build it yourself, and I'm sure you're not suggesting that would be easier than typing a long property name?

# August 23, 2008 11:46 AM

james.kovacs said:

@Greg - I've done more than my share of Web Services. The comment was more tongue-in-cheek than anything else. The basic problem, IMHO, is not the long property names, but the fact that I have to understand which combination of features I need. At one time, I cared about the subtle differences between SOAP 1.1 vs. 1.2. Now honestly I just want to integrate the two applications and be done with it.

# August 25, 2008 7:46 PM

Coder1 said:

Good point.

While we're simplifying, how about simplifying the ads on the blog so I can see where the actual content is?

# August 25, 2008 7:50 PM

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James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. His article, “Debug Leaky Apps: Identify And Prevent Memory Leaks In Managed Code”, appeared in the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.