WebSocket + YASMIN = Viable REST Replacement from Anders Rundgren on 2017-01-27 (public-credentials@w3.org from January 2017)

From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:43:10 +0100
To: W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Message-ID: <b5bc87c8-1f61-c6b8-f1b3-d8509e73bb45@gmail.com>

WebSocket [1] is claimed to be the most efficient communication method for interactive Web applications.

REST [2] is essentially incompatible with WebSocket although some people try to merge them.
That's IMO fairly pointless, since they are building on different concepts.

YASMIN [3], OTOH was *designed from scratch* to support both event-based communication like WebSocket and postMessage(), as well as traditional request/response schemes.

Anders

1] https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6455.txt

2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
     https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/web/REST-in-peace.html

3] https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/web/yasmin.html

Received on Friday, 27 January 2017 08:43:51 UTC