Hi Leonard,
Thanks for your viewpoint!!
Presently, We have a SOA in place comprising of n-number of Web Services, exposed by their SEI and WSDL's, So whenever we get a request from an external client we expect the client to send in the Authentication
SOAP MIME Header along with the SOAP Body, which we decrypt in the Message Handlers and justify one's right to use the resource requested for.. So this all is possible because we are using SOAP Based web service.
If we modify our architecture to expose all the services as resources, with just a URL for communication via GET, POST, Will It be possible to do a similar kind of Authentication that I talked off in my previous stanza.
Hope I am clear enough in expressing myself, and I get "one good" reason to migrate to RESTFul Services?
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Regards,
Dinesh Sundrani
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