- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:48:08 -0400
- To: Geoff Arnold <Geoff.Arnold@Sun.COM>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
Geoff Arnold wrote: > > On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 05:23 AM, Paul Prescod wrote: > > .... Nevertheless, nobody has yet presented a > > problem solvable by SOAP/WSDL that does not lend itself to a REST > > solution > > This appears to be a somewhat bizarre use of "lends itself to", > especially > in view of your agreement that REST is "not necessarily well suited > to all problem domains". Is it the intention to force all problems into > a Procrustean bed of RESTfulness, even those for which it is not > well suited? The only alternative interpretation of the preceding > seems to be that problems for which REST is not a suitable > architectural style are out of scope, which seems rather > question-begging.... If I could get a clear picture of the requirements scope for "web services" then I could declare whether I think that REST fits or not. But instead of a clear problem domain, the web services world tends to be defined by its technologies, SOAP and WSDL. Therefore I formulated my expression in terms of those standards. I can look at what problems those standards are appropriate for and I see that REST is appropriate to a superset of them. -- XML, Web Services Architecture, REST Architectural Style Consulting, training, programming: http://www.constantrevolution.com
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