Unraveling the Web Services Web: An Introduction to SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
IEEE Internet Computing
Computer
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles
IEEE Internet Computing
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Developing web services choreography standards: the case of REST vs. SOAP
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
Semantic and Rule Based Event-driven Services-Oriented Agricultural Recommendation System
ICDCSW '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International ConferenceWorkshops on Distributed Computing Systems
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Restful web services vs. "big"' web services: making the right architectural decision
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
RPC and REST: Dilemma, Disruption, and Displacement
IEEE Internet Computing
Separation of concerns in service-oriented applications based on pervasive design patterns
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Original paper: A web-based model for simulating whole-farm beef cattle systems
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Android: Changing the Mobile Landscape
IEEE Pervasive Computing
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The relentlessly increasing importance and application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Agriculture have given birth to a new field called e-Agriculture, which focus on improving agricultural and rural development through a variety of technologies. In this sense, Agricultural Information Systems (AISs) are distributed sources of information that exploit ICTs to make agricultural processes and decision making more efficient. In order to integrate AISs and therefore build added value AISs, Web Service technologies seem to be the right path towards heterogeneous systems integration. However, there is still uncertain which is the best implementation approach to integrate Web Service-enabled AISs and mobile devices, i.e., the remote information accessors by excellence in rural areas. We comparatively explore the outcomes of employing either Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or REpresentational State Transfer (REST) approaches in a Web Service-enabled whole-farm simulator accessed from Android-powered smartphones. Memory usage was 24% lower in SOAP, but even older and lower-end smartphones have enough RAM to avoid detrimental effects on performance. REST-based approaches broadly incur in less byte transferred compared to SOAP, which has huge implications on costs. That is particularly important when the Internet is accessed via GPRS or 3G protocols and pay-per-byte data plans as in most of Latin America rural areas. However, when unlimited data usage became less costly and more available in such areas, SOAP might be preferred due to the higher maturity of both the protocol and the available developer environments.