RESTful Web services and DAL

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

Well, my preference is for W3C over Wikipedia any day.

Looking at the OpenGIS documentation, it is interesting to note:

'The OpenGIS has been a precursor in Web Services matter, nevertheless,  
the pattern that has been used in not recognised by the industry as a 
standard "XML Web Services"' and 'The industry standard for web services 
is WSDL/SOAP/UDDI."

OpenGIS seems to define both a KVP (key-value pair) and XML version to 
their services which, of course, translates to web services with SOAP 
and HTTP bindings. Are you proposing to do the same with DAL?

I agree entirely that web services are being expanded beyond the initial 
technology selections of WSDL/SOAP/UDDI and indeed XML and that it is 
definitely worth our while to keep abreast of this and see if new 
solutions offer a better fit to our use cases. However, there is some 
merit in sticking to well-supported industry standards when they work.

    Cheers,

    Matthew