> As we've been discussing, in practical implementations of REST the
> client and server are extremely tightly coupled because the
> representations cannot change without you rewriting your client or
> server application code.

This is a curious statement. The most practical implementation of REST
has to be the web. Look at all the variety of servers, and no client
is hardwaired for any of them. The SOAP interfaces I have seen are
infinitely more tightly coupled than this.

Of course if the client is more of a robot and less of a direct human
interface then the variety will be more limited. But the ideas are the
same. As long ago as twenty years there were useful implementations of
such robots. Consider...

"Semistructured messages are surprisingly useful for
computer-supported coordination"
Tom Malone, et al.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=27636.27637

-Patrick









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