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Where to use REST in accordance to Appservices

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For what purposes is REST most usefull. When I see the release demo it can do everything. In the documentation it is statet that appservices should be the first choice. Where does REST come into play? I thought it was mostly used to retrieve information in a simple way.

asked 2018-07-11

John van den Dobbelsteen

4 answers

Rom van Arendonk · Answer 1 · 2018-07-11

Since REST is the de facto standard, you should use REST services unless there is a compelling reason not to.

App services are a user friendly way to use SOAP services. You should not use app services, unless:

- You are a citizen developer and the complexity of REST / SOAP puts you off

- You will never reuse this integration for anything else than Mendix

Dirk Blaauw · Answer 2 · 2018-07-11

Please just use REST instead of app-services.

Appservices, in my opinion, are an attempt at making their own integration standard that nobody actually uses.

John van den Dobbelsteen · Answer 3 · 2018-07-11

Thanks for the advice.

Rapido · Answer 4 · 2018-07-11

My experience is that App Services takes really more time in developing, integrating (publishing in the company app store with different versions etc) and maintaining it over several apps and versions.

While the API integration and maintenance is less time consuming and more transparent to do self.