REST based mobile applications
Mark Rambow, Thomas Preuss, Jörg Berdux, Marc Conrad · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
Simplicity is the major advantage of REST based webservices. Whereas SOAP is widespread in complex, security sensitive business-to-business aplications, REST is widely used for mashups and end-user centric applicatons. In that context we give an overview of REST and compare it to SOAP. Furthermore we apply the GeoDrawing application as an example for REST based mobile applications and emphasize on pros and cons for the use of REST in mobile application scenarios.