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Fig 46: The REST idiom
The design of REST-based services is generally a subtle art, because
resources need to be conceptualised in such a way that standard verbs will
operate on them in a polymorphic way. Fortunately, IAM functionality is
quite intuitive to start with, so the REST service interfaces for IAM pretty
much design themselves! Low-ceremony documentation will therefore
suffice, and there is no need for the elaborate WSDL and WS-Policy files that
are required with SOAP-based services.
The table on the following page illustrates what an IAM REST service
interface could look like.
