On Nov 25, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Mark Baker wrote:

On 11/24/06, Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. 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).

If you mean that one of the parameters is an operation, that is
actually RESTful if you're only using GET.

I agree, but only because URIs are opaque from a REST perspective, and only if the operation is "safe". Right?

Stefan
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