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Monthly Archives: March 2008

If XML-RPC is really better than REST, it’s not for these reasons.

Dave Benjamin summarized on his blog 10 reasons why XML-RPC should be better than REST but I think he completely missed the point about REST APIs. Let’s see:

1 – Standard, cross-language, typeful serialization of data

REST is definitely standard and cross-language. Regarding serialization, you can transfer what you want where you want but if your goal [...]