Look, I'm learning about it myself, I've never used SOAP/XML-RPC or have made a design choice in favour of one architecture over another. BUT when doing web apps one is using REST more often than not.
But looking at your response, a good example of a search to find an entity then making a reservation for that entity is here, an example from a REST wiki site for a Library Management System {Link}
Which leads me to examples of real-world REST apps:
#1 is of course the World Wide Web!
also; RSS syndication, Orielly Meerkat, Yahoo groups, Google & Amazon both offer REST style web services, WebDAV, a product called sqlREST {Link}
I'm sure there are others but I'm just a beginner.
All I can say Stan, is you should do some more reading, I still think you've got a very limited idea about what REST is.
2 Articles I've read that really explain it well are at the Oreilly webservices.xml.com site:
'Second Generation Web Services' : {Link}
'REST and the Real World' : {Link}
Look, I'm learning about it myself, I've never used SOAP/XML-RPC or have made a design choice in favour of one architecture over another. BUT when doing web apps one is using REST more often than not.
But looking at your response, a good example of a search to find an entity then making a reservation for that entity is here, an example from a REST wiki site for a Library Management System {Link}
Which leads me to examples of real-world REST apps:
#1 is of course the World Wide Web!
also; RSS syndication, Orielly Meerkat, Yahoo groups, Google & Amazon both offer REST style web services, WebDAV, a product called sqlREST {Link}
I'm sure there are others but I'm just a beginner.