RE: Roy's ApacheCon presentation from Champion, Mike on 2002-11-20 (www-ws-arch@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Champion, Mike <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:23:28 -0700
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Message-ID: <9A4FC925410C024792B85198DF1E97E4046A3F70@usmsg03.sagus.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: Mark Baker
> Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Roy's ApacheCon presentation
> 

> I think that interface simplification/unification only gives 
> you a false sense of complexity reduction. The complexity 
> (both syntax and semantics) that you remove from the 
> interface you will find in different form in other places, 
> like the document contents transmitted through the REST 
> unified interface, or the choreography computations which 
> depend both on the data itself and on other external factors. 
> So the total complexity of non trivial real world system 
> interconnections is always far from O(N).

+1  That's what I was trying to say :-)  The "conservation
of complexity" principle across code and data.

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