Re: SOAP & REST

> The only difference I see per web architecture between
> 
> http://numbers.com/multiply?inputnumber1="3"+inputnumber2="4"
> 
> and 
> 
> http://numbers.com/?operation="multiply"+inputnumber1="3"+inputnumber2="4"
> 
> is that we can guess that to implement both multiplication and division, 
> the first style would result in two separate parameterized web resources 
> (a multiplying resource, and a dividing resource) while the second would 
> use a single parameterized resource (an arithmetic resource).  I don't see 
> the two as deeply different from a web architecture point of view.

The difference is that in the former form, a user doesn't know whether
the operation being performed is multiplication or division.

In the latter form, the client is required to specify the desired
operation.

MB
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Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
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Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2002 23:34:11 UTC