REST is often used as a very, very limited transport model for a two-bit, buggy, incomplete and incoherent clone of SOAP, yes.
Unfortunately, neither REST nor SOAP are understood by majority of developers writing code for them (to this day, I insist that the real issue with SOAP was people using IDE code generation without ever studying how SOAP works)
Unfortunately, neither REST nor SOAP are understood by majority of developers writing code for them (to this day, I insist that the real issue with SOAP was people using IDE code generation without ever studying how SOAP works)