Building SOA Composite Business Services, Part 3: Build Consumable Web Services Using the REST Architectural Style in WebSphere

Overview

This paper is the third in a series about developing composite applications to enable business services. The paper focuses on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. By using a facade component as a REST-style interface, existing SOAP-style Web services can support customizable URLs, multiple resource format representations, browser response caching, streaming of large attachments, and use of HTTP methods to manipulate the resource.