7.8 Implementation Technology
A fairly large number of application server platform options exists
both for hosting RESTful and WS-* Web services implemented
in any programming language. Likewise, client-side library support
for consuming RESTful and WS-* Web services is also available
in most programming languages and operating systems. Due
to space limitations we cannot present a complete survey comparing
all available implementation technologies. However, it is worth
mentioning that most existing WS-* Web services tools are currently
being extended to also provide support for REST.