[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Documentation To Develop A...

[Jean-Christophe Cardot]

I second this. We developped a bunch of REST services and are now switching to Web handlers to implement them. Despite some more work (not so much really) at the beginning, they allow much more control and evolutivity than REST. Furthermore PSC has (wrongly IMHO) stated that REST webservices are only about JSON, thus preventing e.g. any application/xml consuming REST WS; with webhandlers you can overcome whatever artificial limiitation they implemented in REST WS.

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