It’s nice to see the Workshop get some attention in the blogosphere (hope I constructed those Google and Technorati searches ok). For a while there I wasn’t sure it was going to happen. But it’s a bit disconcerting to see how much of the interest is…

Interesting that Bill wanted to prove they can “do REST” by showing how to consume a service. He doesn’t show how to provide a REST service from his product.

I had a conversation with a different big vendor pre-sales tech yesterday that went something like this.
Me: “You’ve shown us how to create a SOAP/XML service, but how would we present that as a plain XML service?”
Vendor: “Oh you mean REST. That would be hard - you’d have to write something to strip off the SOAP and then you’d have to build a URL destination somehow. But I really don’t understand why you would want to do that anyway. None of our other customers are asking for REST. Wouldn’t you want to use the most standards-compliant way of building services? Anybody using .net or similar will have the tools to support SOAP.”