On 12/11/06, Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And Jan to be fair...
Jan's more old school, like me 8-). Our arguments are probably getting old by now. > Mark, I don't know if Roy Fielding has ever > formally ordained you as a sort of Senior Executive Apostle, but you > were certainly the first to make a serious effort at proselitising > REST in our humble Group. So let me ask you: do you think that as Web > 2.x and Mashups gain mmomentum that this will help REST to gain > popularity at the expense of WS-*? Insofar as mashups are "hot" and WS-* is irrelevant to them, I suppose we're ahead, sure. I think it'll be the simple stuff - getting data from A to B - that helps us the most, which is what we've seen over the past 2/3 years with Flickr, Amazon, etc.. "REST APIs". It sure doesn't happen quickly though. 8-( I'm also hoping that a high profile Web services proponent suddenly "comes to" and supports the Web. That has the potential to be very disruptive - in the good way - for the industry and could move things ahead quickly. But I've been hoping for that for a few years now, and though a bunch of Web services "B listers" have converted, no A listers have yet. Mark.
