REST should be used if it is very important for you to minimize the coupling between client and server components in a distributed application. This may be the case if your server is going to be used by many different clients that you do not have control over. It may also be the case if … Read more
404 is just the HTTP response code. On top of that, you can provide a response body and/or other headers with a more meaningful error message that developers will see.
Performance is broad topic. If you mean the load of the server, REST has a bit better performance because it bears minimal overhead on top of HTTP. Usually SOAP brings with it a stack of different (generated) handlers and parsers. Anyway, the performance difference itself is not that big, but RESTful service is more easy … Read more
SOAP 1.1 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/ SOAP 1.2 uses namespace http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/ The wsdl is able to define operations under soap 1.1 and soap 1.2 at the same time in the same wsdl. Thats useful if you need to evolve your wsdl to support new functionality that requires soap 1.2 (eg. MTOM), in this case you dont … Read more
You example have a lot of problems. For example If you use [WebMethod, ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)] attribute on the web method and [ScriptService] on the the web service class, then the output parameter will be automatically converted to JSON. (see asmx web service, json, javascript/jquery? for example). Then you will not need implementthe functions like … Read more
This is a shorter and hopefully clearer answer… Yes, the endpoint is the URL where your service can be accessed by a client application. The same web service can have multiple endpoints, for example in order to make it available using different protocols.
A great resource to pick the correct HTTP error code for your API: http://www.codetinkerer.com/2015/12/04/choosing-an-http-status-code.html An excerpt from the article: Where to start: 2XX/3XX: 4XX: 5XX:
Here are the steps you need to perform in order to install the certificate to the Java keystore for ColdFusion. First, be sure you are updating the correct cacerts file that ColdFusion is using. In case you have more than one JRE installed on that server. You can verify the JRE ColdFusion is using from … Read more
You don’t say how you’re using Jackson in Spring, so I’ll assume you’re using it through <mvc:annotation-driven/> and the @RequestBody and/or @ResponseBody annotations. One of the things that <mvc:annotation-driven/> does is to register a AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter bean which comes with a number of pre-configured HttpMessageConverter beans, including MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter, which handles marshalling to and from Jackson-annotated model … Read more
The two protocols have very different uses in the real world. SOAP(using WSDL) is a heavy-weight XML standard that is centered around document passing. The advantage with this is that your requests and responses can be very well structured, and can even use a DTD. The downside is it is XML, and is very verbose. … Read more