- From: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:47:34 -0800
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Miles: I agree with your sentiments completely. There IS something in there; perhaps, like Leonardo da Vinci, it is our job to cut away from the wooden block (pun intended) what is NOT Web services! Frank On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Miles Sabin wrote: > > David Orchard wrote, >> Excellent. I'd tried to do the same earlier as well. There's a >> little bit more to do to finish this off. > <snip/> > > Before you get _too_ enthusiastic, I'd just like to point out that I > think there _are_ interesting ideas lurking in REST once you get past > the proselytizing, and they don't depend on human interaction any more > than any other approach. > > IMO, what's distinctive and interesting about REST is that it > corresponds quite naturally to a programming model surprisingly similar > to formal models of distributed and mobile systems, the Pi calculus in > particular. That model is _very_ different from RPC-like programming > models, and definitely worth consideration, especially wrt > choreography/orchestration. > > I'm against obfuscation, not REST, and saddened that half-baked (no pun > intended) advocacy is getting in the way of teasing out it's genuine > merits. > > Cheers, > > > Miles >
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