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“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design:

One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.  The first method is far more difficult.”

—  C. A. R. Hoare

From: “The Emperor’s Old Clothes” ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1980.

There is a newly proposed Mainframe Q&A forum at Stack Exchange. It will go into Beta once enough SE users have committed to support it.

My current project has me looking into making existing APIs RESTful, and changing to use either JSON or SOAP and WSDL.  I found the following resources to be relevant and/or helpful:

• This Stack Exchange question seemed (to me) to be a good overview of REST as it applies to real world, business APIs.
• A Rest 101 Beginner’s Guide put out by SmartBear (SOAPUI)
• Restful Service Best Practices and this white paper on best practices for building RESTful Web Services by Infosys
• Thoughts on RESTful API design
• Web Services: JSON vs. XML and Stop Comparing JSON and XML
• Understanding the JSON Schema