On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/10/31 Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> For some reason I have this bizarre thought about people screaming RPC
>>> at WS-* when people were really doing document passing, it must be
>>> really terrible when people mislabel what you are doing...
>>
>> If people were simply passing documents, you wouldn't have heard (as
>> m)any complaints from the REST proponents, since document passing -
>> representational state ("document") transfer ("passing") - is what
>> it's all about.
>>
>> I think I saw perhaps one or two examples of WS-* being used for
>> document passing. And I saw lots of examples.
>
> Not from me you didn't ;)I don't recall you using many/any examples. A *quick* check of your blog turns up nothing either. Can you point me to an example that you believe uses document passing? > What this comes down to, and Roy's rant, > is that lots of people seem unable to use technologies correctly no > matter how simple people think they are making it. Some, sure. It's not "lots" in the grand scheme of things, because there are at least a few orders of magnitude more who understand the salient parts well enough to have grown the Web to the size it is today. > I'd argue that > this is because it doesn't guide the abstract thinking enough. Seems to work for most people. Mark.
