Re: FYI, tag election links

On 12/13/12 7:13 PM, Eric J. Bowman wrote:
>> AWWW is outdated and should be revised or withdrawn.
>>
> As I didn't know about AWWW until another developer used it to explain
> something to me, I assume I'm not the only one who's introduced other
> developers to it.  I've used it to explain, or justify, implementation
> details when handing projects over to, or consulting with, younger
> developers.  Pretty much required, given my penchant for conneg.
>
> Revising, I don't have a problem with per se.  In fact, I'm still
> waiting for Volume 2, and maybe that's what's called for given that
> Code on Demand is an optional constraint, rather than treating it as
> the basis of some new and backwards-incompatible architecture requiring
> a clean slate to define.  Or justification for not having a defined
> architecture.
>
> Over the past several years, I've watched certain solutions I advocate
> go from the ivory tower, to being an everyday practical reality...
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19226
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/19228
>
> ...which, to me, makes AWWW more relevant today by reinforcing certain
> truths it's based on.  Indeed, resources do have representations; there
> is a cost in moving data from point A to point B; the most efficient
> network request is one which doesn't need to be made; and that the best
> media types for anarchic scalability and user-perceived performance are
> those which are processable as streams.
>
> The result, is that working within the "web of documents" paradigm
> remains valid, with ever-increasing scalability as the components which
> make up the deployed infrastructure continue to evolve to support it --
> even when it's to those components' developers' chagrin.  Some of the
> Web, and perhaps most of it, will always fit the distributed hypermedia
> application paradigm, so I believe we need to evolve from there rather
> than pulling the rug out from under those developers who use AWWW in
> favor of making up a new architecture as we go.
>
> Not that I have a vote, just one developer's view from down in the
> trenches.
>
> -Eric
>
>
>
+1

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