- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:02:32 -0500
- To: "Shi, Xuan" <xshi@GEO.WVU.edu>
- Cc: "'Yves Lafon '" <ylafon@w3.org>, "''public-sws-ig@w3.org ' '" <public-sws-ig@w3.org>
On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Shi, Xuan wrote: > As to my understanding, the problem for REST may be that REST has > limited > meaningful description. It has only 4 verbs (or more?) like GET, POST, > PUT, > DELETE, etc. I could not find any useful information about semantic Web > services in REST approach, while REST people said those 4 verbs are > enough > for all ;p Sigh. Those verbs have parameters. Notably (let's talk GET) the URI. Consider: GET aPageGivingTheCurrentWeather vs. GET aPageGivingTheCurrentTime vs. GET aPageGivingTheCurrentPriceOfAStock Yes, the verb is the same in each, but the overall action is quite different. Why not describe that. (Some applications don't care and shouldn't, i.e., webcrawler. But others do and should.) Cheers, Bijan.
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