On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:48 +0100, Stefan Tilkov wrote: > On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote: > > > I agree completely, Paul. POX is clearly the significant > > alternative to > > SOAP, and REST only has as much mindshare as it does because people > > mistakenly consider any use of XML over HTTP as REST. > > Again, I'm unsure what definition of POX you're using here - POX can > be RESTful or not.
And that's why POX is what matters and not REST. POX is a useful way to invoke services. REST is a religion. > > AFAIK anything > > that involves URLs with a bunch of parameters at the end is not REST > > (because it's not identifying a particular resource, it's effectively > > exposing a method call). Do you disagree with this, Stefan? > > Absolutely, yes - that's why Axis2's REST support is in fact nothing > of the sort. Yes, its actually POX support. And using your own words above, such POX support can be used to write RESTful applications and non-RESTful applications. Its not up to us middleware authors to dictate how people will write applications. If they want to write RESTful apps, great. If they want to write non-RESTful SOA app, great. We support both camps. Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/
