The Evolution of web service

 

Web service Evolution

web service API (operation oriented)   --->        web service (reources oriented)

 

xml-rpc

http://www.xmlrpc.com/

 

soap1.1

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/

 

soap1.2

http://www.w3.org/2003/06/soap11-soap12.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995800.aspx

http://hadleynet.org/marc/whatsnew.html

 

RESTful

http://www.infoq.com/cn/articles/roa-rest-of-rest

 

WSDL2.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2004/05/19/wsdl2.html

http://soa.dzone.com/news/look-wsdl-20

 

 

The infoset is the abstract data. XML is just one way of representing that data. The data could be represented completely in a completely different way, one that does not even look like pointy brackets in a text file, still it would be the same data. It is a common mistake to think that XML actually is data it represents. It is merely the serialized form