On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of lead architects around me said that SOA and RIA are almost orthogonal > because RIA demands fine-grained operations while SOA tends to > coarse-grained ones... > > - Michael
Hence my assertion that RIA and mashups will become more intimately connected with SOA if/when REST becomes a predominant approach for building services. REST exposes capabilities through a resource interface. (see my recent post, REST is about Resources [http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2008/03/rest-is-about-r.html]). The resource interface is fine-grained. Any "thing" that you want to interact with has a URL. RESTful services are significantly easier to interact with than SOAP APIs, particularly from the RIA and mashup tooling perspective. (Note that the RESTful service can still be coarse-grained -- but the interface [the resources it exposes] is fine-grained.) Anne > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:37:30 PM > Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Meehan on RIA meets SOA > > > > > Why is that? Why would an RIA be "more connected" to services based on > the interaction style? Why would accessing services via REST vs. any > other mechanism be considered more connected? A service consumer is a > service consumer, regardless of the service interface, no? > > Or are you referring to the relative prevalence of an RIA's use of > services compared to other approaches? > > -Rob > > --- In service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com, "Anne Thomas > Manes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > RIA and mashups will become more intimately connected with SOA > > if/when REST becomes a predominant approach for building services. > > > > Anne > > > > ________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now.
