RE: REST wrap-up (was Re: Web Services Architecture Document

Mark:

> I understand.  My point remains that all Internet scale 
> systems I've studied (including the ones I mentioned; email, 
> Web, instant
> messaging) get to be Internet scale by defining abstractions 
> at the level I'm talking about.  Can you name one that 
> doesn't?  Do you think that's a coincidence?  I don't.  
> Agreement on application abstractions is what coordination 
> languages are all about, and they go by that name for a good 
> reason 8-).

I don't necessarily think that Web Services will be used for Internet
scale systems, at least not at the same Internet scale that the human
web is at. However I do not believe that laying down a foundation that
consists of messages (which are sent and received) is in any way
detrimental to building such systems, after all I can build "your
architecture" using those primatives, no?

Jim

Received on Monday, 9 February 2004 00:08:18 UTC