- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:30:06 +0000
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
David Orchard wrote, > Excellent. I'd tried to do the same earlier as well. There's a > little bit more to do to finish this off. <snip/> Before you get _too_ enthusiastic, I'd just like to point out that I think there _are_ interesting ideas lurking in REST once you get past the proselytizing, and they don't depend on human interaction any more than any other approach. IMO, what's distinctive and interesting about REST is that it corresponds quite naturally to a programming model surprisingly similar to formal models of distributed and mobile systems, the Pi calculus in particular. That model is _very_ different from RPC-like programming models, and definitely worth consideration, especially wrt choreography/orchestration. I'm against obfuscation, not REST, and saddened that half-baked (no pun intended) advocacy is getting in the way of teasing out it's genuine merits. Cheers, Miles
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