- From: Assaf Arkin <arkin@intalio.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:37:11 -0800
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Newcomer, Eric" <Eric.Newcomer@iona.com>
- Cc: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
> Imagine opening an IIOP connection to a remote, untrusted server. What > method's can you invoke at that point? Any method which I have credentials to access? > Now imagine opening an HTTP connection to the same remote, untrusted > server. What methods can you invoke then? Any method which I have credentials to access? arkin > > That's the difference between transport and transfer, and between layer > 6 and layer 7. > > > Actually, by your logic, the comparsion of REST to Web services > doesn't make sense, either, as they also are defined at different > levels of the stack. > > Hmm, no, REST isn't a protocol, it's an architectural style. > > But if you mean that Web services doesn't specify any methods (i.e. does > not define a coordination language), whereas REST does, then I agree. > > MB > -- > Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca > Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis >
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