Editing Web service (section)

===Criticism===

Critics of non-RESTful Web services often complain that they are too complex<ref>{{cite web |last=Bray |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Bray |date=2004-10-28 |title=WS-Pagecount |url=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/21/WS-Research |access-date=2011-04-22 |publisher=TBray.org |language=en-US}}</ref> and based upon large software vendors or integrators, rather than typical [[Open-source model|open source]] implementations.

There are also concerns about performance due to Web services' use of XML as a message format and SOAP/HTTP in enveloping and transporting.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/infopapers/676/ |title=Performance of Java Middleware – Java RMI, JAX-RPC, and CORBA |last=Gray |first=N. A. B. |journal=[[University of Wollongong]] |pages=31–39 |year=2005 |quote=The results presented in this paper show that the nature of response data has a greater impact on relative performance than has been allowed for in most previous studies.}}</ref>