A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat

Summary
In this presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco, ThoughtWorks director of professional services and all-around Web and Web services expert Jim Webber explains the core concepts of message-oriented web services, expresses his thorough dislike of WSDL, explains different approaches to Web architecture, and shows an example of a RESTful workflow.

Bio
Dr. Jim Webber is director of professional services for ThoughtWorks, where he works on distributed systems for clients worldwide. He has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide".

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