Re: Devices as Virtual Web Services

+1

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:03 PM, ext Max Froumentin wrote:

> On 20/01/2010 15:32, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as discussed previously, here are my notes about this specific issue:
>>
>>   http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/docs/virtual-ws.html
>>
>> Comments welcome!
>
> DAP as an API means:
> - It is implemented in the browser code, or a plugin
> - It is simple to use for webapp authors (because it was designed so)
>
> DAP as a REST service means:
> - more work for webapp authors (and there are thousands more of them
> than browser implementers.)
> - hence, webapp authors will almost be forced to use a framework
> - that framework will probably need to include Comet support
> - we're not sure yet if every feature of DAP is mappable to a REST  
> concept.
> - we're not sure how to solve the URI scheme problem.
>
> Based on the above, and on the assumption that DAP is meant to be a
> convenience for webapp authors, APIs seem simpler and superior.
>
> But like John Kemp has said, it's a good thing to keep REST
> implementations in mind when we design the API, since we can expect a
> few of them to be wrappers around REST APIs anyway.
>
> Whether we should have a REST solution defined on top of the current  
> API
> is something we may want to have a look at, but not a priority to me.
>
> Max.
>

Received on Saturday, 23 January 2010 15:55:27 UTC