On 12/12/06, Andrew S. Townley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [good stuff]
Thanks Andrew for that mail, good stuff! And thanks Jan; you're both
very, very patient. :)
I think it's important to note how much REST actually is like the Web
itself; it's not about RPC as in you've got this big API and you need
to know a lot of shit to know what part of it to use at what time.
Throw all of that out, and let REST give you *exactly* what you can do
at that perticular time, and just trust the expert (the service). This
is no different from well-designed web applications where user
interaction in the user interface defines "what to do next."
REST is interactive, keeps its own state and limits the API to that
context, while WS-* is just another RPC stack where you keep your own
state and you must know bucketloads on how that state impacts with the
fullness of the API.
Alex
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