- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:04:41 -0400
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:04:45PM -0700, David Orchard wrote: > I really like the use of the hotel reservation service, and regularly championed it. However, the problem that I see with the hotel scenario is that I don't think it is very amenable to a REST/HTTP centric interface. Really? I don't see any problem. > You basically need property/documentish things that can be read/written without side-effects, effectively "dead" properties as WebDAV calls them. Not sure what you mean. > Reservations and flight availability etc. are not really modelled well as CRUD operations. Agreed. So it's a good thing REST isn't CRUD, eh? 8-) CRUD doesn't have an equivalent to POST, which is what you'd need here for document processing. For example, for this, it would seem you'd just POST a hotel reservation form to a hotel reservation form processor. Voila! Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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