Disordered Cogitations

When we talk about implementing Web-based Service Oriented Architectures, we immediately rush to the standard Web Service technologies of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. REST is just a simple way to create a service that uses native http/html instructions without the over head of SOAP. In the most simple case, one just adds a request to the back end of a web address, like the following:

http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?t=ASSOC_ID&dev-t=DEV_TOKEN&type=lite&f=xml&BrowseNodeSearch=468642&mode=videogames&page=1&locale=us

One receives back an XML stream. No SOAP, but a Web Service just the same.