Hi!

today I tried to understand the things told in previous posts and draw
up
a list and a plan of the things to do(hopeful being able to do it...)

...i tried to setup a rails app with web service(on what fun it is to
ride ... on rails)...

but after some googling to search info about "rails web
services" (...) something very
good happened to me...

this is the first link i found:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb08016/

but the most interesting thing is a link that lies on the bottom of
the page:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restvsoap/

I was a little in dubt about the REST design... but after reading this
document
my mind became a bit more sure about it's doubts...

Are we sure that the rails app that act as workflow engine web service
should be
written following the REST design pattern? My opinion is that in such
an application
the aspect of the activity control is central(we are making the engine
work).
On the other side i'm convinced that wf resources access is at the
same way
important, because the several aspects that don't concern engine
operation control,
probably fall into resource access, and so in the REST preferred
application field.

My idea is that the future WFE-WS should satisfy both this
complemental requirements, and to
do it should not force the choice of a single design that is very good
for one purpose
but is quite problematic for the other. I think that it would be
better to write it
having two ways of interact with clients: the SOAP(or XML-RPC) for the
activity control
and the REST arch for the resource access.

thanks to everyone for reading and thinking about this,
waiting for comments and critics...
good night
Tom



--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"OpenWFEru dev" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-dev?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to