On 2/23/07, Eric Newcomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It seems like on this thread, whatever the question, the answer is "uniform > interface." > > Maybe it' just me.
It's not just you. In my estimation, the uniform interface is the greatest advance in the history of large scale distributed computing ... well, in conjunction with standardized identifiers I suppose. So it's really no surprise that it's the answer to many questions. 8-) But FWIW, the uniform interface isn't the only way to get self-descriptive messages. If the interface is standardized then it is self-descriptive. That's why SOA/WS (and ONC, DCE, CORBA, DCOM, RMI et al) - which unapologetically do *not* constrain the interface - never had, and will never have, self-descriptive messages in the general case. It's the main reason we don't see those systems on the Internet. *ALL* Internet based systems have standardized operations. This is not a coincidence. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
