Coupling
The second reason is that web services are too tightly coupled. But the difference between REST and SOAP is the degree of coupling. Dan goes on to say that the contract between client and service extends beyond the call
You Call it Coupling, I Call It Reality
PL: The second reason is that web services are too tightly coupled. If a contract is not coupling between applications, then what is? Coupling occurs when it is not possible to change the implementation of the component without
Websphere and .NET Interoperability Redbook from IBM: Be Careful!
I'll assume you all know what web services interop means. You don't want tight coupling between .NET and Websphere. you should take a contract-first approach, the example the book provides DOES NOT take a contract-first approach
Coupling in a RESTful Way
You're absolutely right that SOAP based services fail to offer any kind of I've never written a stateful web service and I'm disappointed to hear that do it but then they are relying upon an unsupported aspect of your contract.
Last Lap Around ASMX and Stuffs before moving to WCF:-Final Part
However when we discuss about Enterprise webservices[or services itself] there are many and loose coupling etc.; and to provide those aspects to your services you need to Paul Prescod: on REST - Second Generation of Web Services
Coupling isn't so black and white
in his InfoQ interview of web services being too tightly coupled. They are located by URI's which is a contract for where they can be found. Rather, coupling is measured in degrees. REST advocates claim that it can allow for
Checking out Windows Communication Foundation Serialization
In this entry I’m just keeping notes on implementing a Web Service and client BTW, you can also separate the service contract in ASMX services in ASP. that using object types directly is a bad idea encouraging tight coupling,
10 Principles of SOA
An interface exposed by a service is governed by a contract that discussion of why many current Web services stacks fail this test.) 7. Loosely coupled. Most SOA proponents will agree that loose coupling is an important concept.
Putting the 'A' back into SOA with WS-CDL
In practice SOA is a way of loosely coupling a collection of services that are as Web Service or as Message(Event)-based services over some communications Global externally observable behavior describes the contract for a system
You Call it Coupling, I Call It Reality
REST and SOAP both allow a service provider to specify only limited aspects of a Web service's contract. and that leads to close coupling between Web services and their clients, according to a recent blog post by Dan Pritchett

Choosing among JCA, JMS, and Web services for EAI
With Web services the coupling is based on both an interface definition and a protocol binding. The contract is published in WSDL, which defines the
Discordant Web Service Orchestration .: Manageability :.
Web services Orchestration in particular BPEL4WS is in a sense an Discordant Web Service Orchestration Loose Coupling and i connection to Robustness
Enterprise .NET Community: S Featured Entry
Like I said in this post, loose-coupling is a term that is often flung around but rarely achieved in practice especially by most of today's Web services
An Inter-Service Coupling Index for Lossless Exchanges
Web Services and the contract-based programming model have pushed the level of abstraction and offer one potential answer to the ongoing coupling dilemma.
WCF expert on management, security and loose coupling
NET Remoting, Enterprise Services/COM+, Web Services Enhancemen (WSE) and In WCF, programmers write a contract, define a service binding and bind the
The principles of service-orientation part 2 of 6: Service
The role of service contrac. Services are formally defined using one or more service description doen. In the Web services world, the technical
ZapThink :: Research REST and Web Services: The ZapThink Take
Web Services have contrac, defined in WSDL. Since Web Services focus on the d at maximizing reuse and composition, in addition to loose coupling.
Understanding Coupling in the Context of an SOA @ SOA WEB SERVICES
Understanding Coupling in the Context of an SOA A SOAP-centric contract description language for Web Services is needed.
Web Services Architecture Overview Paper
Web services architectures provide a framework for creating, and deploying loosely coupled applications. One of the consequences of the loose coupling is
Web Services Glossary
This is a public Working Group Note of the Web Services Glossary. It has been produced by the Coupling is the dependency between interacting systems. contract+coupling+services+web: contract+coupling+services+web