Well, it is quite in the MS tradition: their BPEL is not a BPEL but WF/WCF; thier Ajax is not Ajax because it passes the entire page between the browser and the server; thier services are Web Services. I am waiting when they announce that Bill Gates is a Pope of Rome, in the Microsoft way...
BTW, in their Cloud Computing offering they define Public CC as a CC running via puplic Internet. So, REST is a small 'animal' to them. - Michael ________________________________ From: Gervas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 1:21:04 PM Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Microsoft & REST Both Stefan (in his blog) and Anne (on Facebook) have observed that Microsoft's definition of REST is: "An RPC protocol running over SOAP". The document to which they both refer can be found at: http://www.globalfoundationservices.com/security/documents/WindowsAzureSecurityOverview1_0Aug2010.pdf The passage in question states: <<REST (representational state transfer) An RPC protocol running over SOAP used for many interactions within the Windows Azure Fabric and with Windows Azure customer development environments.>> As they say in exam papers: discuss! Gervas
