On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 14:09, Harm Smit wrote: > Andrew, a few minor comments in-line. >
> This is true, however the danger of concluding that this service must > be > explicitly referenced via a lightbulb10.turnOn() type invocation > inherently ties your service requester to a *specific* location > provided > by a *specific* service provider. To me, this resolution should be > part > of the plumbing to allow interventionist actions like service provider > selection based on policy or deployment configuration rather than > making > the explicit decisions in your requester implementations. This is > where > you start to get real value from loosely coupled SOA implementations. > > Absolutely. The lightbulb10.turnOn() formulation was merely given to > set it off against lightbulb10.PUT(<state="on"/>) or something > similar. > In actual practice, the lightbulb and its services would be discovered > dynamically. Ah. What threw me was the 'lightbulb10' part rather than turnOn vs. PUT. I'm not sure that I would've characterized the REST approach via the mechanism you did, but I get your point. Cheers, ast *************************************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. *************************************************************************************************** ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
