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Two architectural styles are currently heavily discussed regarding the design of service-oriented architectures (SOA). Within this chapter we have compared those two alternative styles – the SOAP-style with procedural designs similar to remote procedure calls and the REST-style with loosely coupled services similar to resources of the World Wide Web. We introduce the case of a business network consisting of manufacturers and service providers of the electronics industry for deriving a set of requirements towards a specific SOA implementation. For each architectural style we present a concrete SOA design and evaluate it against the defined set of requirements.
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This chapter was written within the context of the research projects FlexNet and ServPay, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), promotional references 01FD0629 and 02PG1010.
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Becker, J., Matzner, M., Müller, O. (2009). Comparing Architectural Styles for Service-Oriented Architectures – a REST vs. SOAP Case Study. In: Papadopoulos, G., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, G., Wrycza, S., Zupancic, J. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/b137171_22
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