On Monday, November 10, 2008, at 10:31AM, "Steve Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But back in 1991 it wasn't RESTful and was still possible. Its a >brilliantly simple (IMO the best inventions are) mechanism for >inter-document linking, that superbly took the complex SGML and >concepts from Hypercard and its ilk and delivered in a massive >distributed way a simple solution. Its document linking rather than >systems integration however.
Steve, could you clarify what it means for something to be 'systems integration'? What are the properties of a technology/approach that make it a systems integrations technology or approach? Jan > > >> >>> Just a quick question: Are you saying that HTTP and the href tag is >>> sufficent for a site to claim it is doing REST style integration? >>> This way it would be the case that sites that just use POST for >>> everything would be fully REST compliant. >> >> No. > >Thank god for that, I was about to have to re-write a presentation on REST ;) > >Steve > > > >> >> Mark. >> > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
