But MIME types/namespaces don't easily express verbs, do they? Obviously I can do "anything" through the http interface, but this doesn't make it easy or natural. I can tunnel CORBA over HTTP, but this doesn't make it desirable. Since I can write almost any code, I have no real limitation to distributed applications, but that can make them very complex. Using OO techniques, for example, makes writing certain types of distributed applications very simple. To deploy them in other situations means I have to unwrap the OO characteristics which ends up making them very complex. ebXML is a way to put a lot of semantics in a simple method call, but does little to make distributed computing easier. It is at least as complicated as other ways of doing the same thing. The value of this phobia of making a simple method call with complex payload as a way of "simplifying" distributed computing escapes me.
Sorry for being so obtuse. Dave Jan Algermissen wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2005, at 2:42 AM, David Forslund wrote: > > > If one only as PUT and POST one is severely limited on the type of > > application semantics > > that one can express. > > Right. And limiting the API semantics is exactly what HTTP and the > Web (and REST in general) > is about. > > > Sending all communications over these type of > > "method" calls is > > pretty limiting or requires one to add the application semantics to > > the > > messages. > > Right. MIME types/namespaces are where these application semantics > are defined in case of the Web. > > How is that limiting the kinds of ditributed applications you can > build??? > > Jan > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______________ > Jan Algermissen, Consultant & Programmer > http://jalgermissen.com > Tugboat Consulting, 'Applying Web technology to enterprise IT' > http://www.tugboat.de > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
