[NGO] Re: NGO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4

[Dave Fregon]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 21:47 +0200, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> David Geilhufe wrote:
> > 
> > One note about "service" integration... CiviCRM will provide a stable
> > service-- probably SOAP-- when there is a demand for it... right now
> > Plone would be the first demand for it.
> 
> This might be waaay too technical for this list, but I'll mention it
> anyhow: any explicit reason to use SOAP instead of "REST" (http+xml)?
> REST tends to be simpler and - at least that was my impression - if you
> give developers the choice between a REST and a SOAP api, 80% will
> choose REST (this happened with, I believe, the amazon and ebay interfaces).
> 
> Anyway, probably totally irrelevant to this list as such ;-)

also ..the overhead with SOAP is a lot more than REST from stuff I have
read eg:

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20060704042846

I suppose it depends on what you are doing in calls ..

Dave