http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2008, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I35/1209-1.php The REST and SOA styles are both derived from a long history of developing architectural expertise. REST is derived from the needs of the Web to enable services owned by often competing organizations to interoperate, to rapidly evolve, to operate at very large scale, and to do so in a way that supports long-term backwards-compatibility concerns. SOA is rooted in enterprise architectures that are each aimed at producing maximum value for their respective business stakeholders. This article, comprised of an excerpt from the upcoming book "SOA with REST", focuses on the Web standards most relevant to the design and development of RESTful services. We will look at key Web standards and the organizations that produce and maintain them and discuss how these standards can be applied to RESTful services both in the Internet and enterprise spaces... SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-cpautasso.php#When:01.14.10