On 11/12/06, Gregg Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Jan Algermissen wrote: > > > > > > > > On Dec 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Stefan Tilkov wrote: > > > > > It's poorly understood, at least by many. So what? > > > > I found Roy's recent words rather helpful with regard to > > understanding what > > REST is trying to achieve. See http://jalgermissen.com/2005/11/blog/ > > <http://jalgermissen.com/2005/11/blog/> > > 2006/09/11/19/ > > I think that Roy's comments on REST are not new information. It has always > been > good software design, to expose the least about implementation. Developers > will > choose to use as much existing software as is possible. They will imagine > and > then try and prove as much about the actions of an API as they have time and > resources to abuse. This is not something new about REST, and REST as a name > doesn't guarentee this. Only through architecture and development practices > will these attributes become a reality.
+1 The bit that Roy misses out is the trully powerful tool of enforcement to prevent such abuse... A stick with nails in it. This REST stuff reminds me in someways of the way "Agile" thought it invented iterations. > > Gregg Wonderly >
