Mark Baker wrote: > On 1/18/07, Gregg Wonderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It's a feature of REST, by definition. >> No, REST transfers the content, it doesn't specify that it's possible to then >> make connections to the network, or how that is done. How that is done, is a >> programming API. > > REST is an architectural style. You seem to think it's HTTP or the > Web, or something else concrete. Architectural styles are abstract, > and so if one - like REST - says it includes a mobile code constraint, > then by golly it includes a mobile code constraint. >
I think the problem is that peoples' use of the terms REST, HTTP and the Web is poorly disciplined such that one often see's references to "The Web" when what was meant was REST. > Mark.
