On 6/6/07, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing is magic. Anything can be done poorly. So, yes, it's > > ultimately up to the developer--as everything is. But if your > > application _does_ obey REST principles (which is what is implied by > > "doing REST"), then, yes, it surely does exhibit the properties stated > > earlier. > > No... it MIGHT exhibit them. You can obey the principles of REST and > still create a pig.
No Steve, you cannot (at least not a "reliability pig") because ****ALL**** RESTful systems are stateless, and all stateless systems have superior reliability to an otherwise equivalent stateful one (for the reasons Pete previously gave). Mark.
