UWS as a REST protocol

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

Markus Dolensky wrote:
> Dear Guy,
>
> It's great that you are implementing a REST prototype that one can 
> (hopefully) look at.
>
>> My personal preference is to work, from here on, just on the RESTful 
>> form of
>> UWS and to abandon the SOAP version. Since, AFAIK, I'm the only one 
>> who has
>> writen any SOAP UWS code I think this should be OK. Please let me 
>> know your
>> views.
>
> Going one step further, do you recon not to use SOAP at all when 
> writing new services? (because it'll be harder to make them behave 
> UWS'ish later on)
If we are going down this path then I want to strongly reiterate (to 
this group and other IVOA groups) that we do it properly, i.e. pure REST 
interfaces and not the half-baked "well, it uses HTTP GET and verbs" 
that a lot of people mean by REST.

    Cheers,

    Matthew