On 9/20/06, Jerome Louvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]
Not all applications require this level of transactionality/atomicity. In those cases, directly using PUT to create a resource is just fine as putting the same representation multiple times as no visible side effect.
I.e., that directness may well be sufficiently atomic (and "transactional") given other factors of the design/implementation. For some reason that point reminds me to point out that "REST" is an architectural "style", not some sort of "law". As the pirates said, "more like guidelines" to help rather than rules that must be followed blindly. Take care, John
