Its an impressively bad definition of REST though and one that does sort of make you think... how come if REST is "simple" that people can be this order of magnitude wrong.
Steve On 24 August 2010 22:51, Michael Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > >
