It is great but how an application can find another application in the Net without having a WADL (the equivalent for WSDL in WS-*)?
All the best Ashraf Gala On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Nick Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Cross-posted in REST-Discuss Yahoo Group] > > Two Gartner colleagues and I just published a note on WOA -- a term I > coined a couple of years ago and finally got around to nailing down. > > I've posted some highlights from it on my blog: > > http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_gall/2008/11/19/woa-putting-the-web-back-in-web-services/ > . > > Let me just repeat the essential definition here: > > WOA is an architectural substyle of SOA that integrates systems and > users via a web of globally linked hypermedia based on the > architecture of the Web. This architecture emphasizes generality of > interfaces (UIs and APIs) to achieve global network effects through > five fundamental generic interface constraints: > 1. Identification of resources > 2. Manipulation of resources through representations > 3. Self-descriptive messages > 4. Hypermedia as the engine of application state > 5. Application neutrality > > I am especially interested in this list's feedback on the addition of > a fifth constraint to Roy's four "uniform interface" constraints: > "application neutrality". Reactions to the change from "uniform > interface" to "generic interface" are also welcome. (As are any other > reactions -- except to the choice of the name "WOA". <grin>) > > -- Nick > > Nick Gall > Phone: +1.781.608.5871 > AOL IM: Nicholas Gall > Yahoo IM: nick_gall_1117 > MSN IM: (same as email) > Google Talk: (same as email) > Email: nick.gall AT-SIGN gmail DOT com > Weblog: http://ironick.typepad.com/ironick/ > Furl: http://www.furl.net/members/ngall > >
