Re: REST wrap-up (was Re: Web Services Architecture Document

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:54:04AM -0000, Jim Webber wrote:
> 
> Hao:
> 
> > I would argue that the reason you want to limit the number of 
> > verbs is that we are consuming services.
> 
> Fine. I can reduce the number of verbs from my original two (SEND and
> RECEIVE) to just one (SEND). That certainly seems like the minimum I can
> get away with, can the REST approach do any better :-)

If you hit "send", "receive", or "invoke", you've gone too far; you're
no longer at the application layer.  The uniform interface is as far as
you can generalize application semantics, by *definition*.

Mark.
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Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca

Received on Monday, 9 February 2004 22:54:28 UTC