Web services for the REST of us

Web services for the REST of us: "An increasing number of developers are turning to a much-simplified way of developing Web services, known as Representational State Transfer (REST). I'll cover REST in more detail in my next column, but here's the brief rundown. With REST, you build services using XML, but rather than communicating via SOAP and using the rest of the Web services stack, you use the much simpler HTTP. Simplicity is the key to REST; services can be built using basic commands such as 'put,' 'get,' 'post' and 'delete.'"