On 9/27/07, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Couldn't resist it > > http://service-architecture.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-rest-architecture-or-design-pattern.html > > I am trying to make a serious point however about the difference between > business architecture and the modelling of solutions and technical > implementations of those solutions. REST is the later as described in the > paper (IMO) but can be used within the thinking of the former, as all good > architectures should be informed by the implementation approach.
Steve, have you read the first chapter of Roy's dissertation? Your blog entry suggests not, because you conclude that "REST is a design pattern", which is almost right, but not quite. REST is composed of several constraints (patterns), and so is therefore a pattern *language*. See; http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/software_arch.htm#sec_1_6 REST is most definitely about "implementation" as you call it. IMO, it does a better job at providing a solution to automating business processes than SOA. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
