I spoke with Preston Gralla a few weeks ago about using REST when building a web application, and the results of that interview are now online here: Web Services for the REST of us, part II on techtarget.com. (Part I is here). It's always interesting to see your quotes in print. Gralla got the general gist of what I said pretty much dead-on, even though some of the quotes were slightly out of context and/or condensed.

Gralla also expands on a concept I first saw on Stephen O'Grady's blog - Instead of talking about SOAP vs. REST (tired) he's talking about Web Services (capital "W") vs. web services (small "w"). To me, this is an excellent distinction, where web services (small "w") is all about openness, experimentation, simplicity, with an acceptable degree of insecurity and unreliability, and Web Services (big "W") is more about the WS-stack, trackable transactions, security, reliability, etc. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses (as defined by disparate audiences). For me, it's a matter of 'use what works for you'. For my purposes (generally lightweight non-critical experiments), REST is perfect.

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