- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:50:45 -0800
- To: "'He, Hao'" <Hao.He@thomson.com.au>, "'Jim Webber'" <Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk>, "'Josh Sled'" <jsled@asynchronous.org>, "'Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)'" <RogerCutler@chevrontexaco.com>
- Cc: "'Michael Champion'" <mc@xegesis.org>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Why is this discussion happening? Why even join the ws-arch group if you don't like SOAP? I can't get over that you even want to talk about this. Dave ps. The folks that tunnel over HTTP are using SOAP as a transport. You want them to use it as a transfer protocol. > -----Original Message----- > From: He, Hao [mailto:Hao.He@thomson.com.au] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 7:14 PM > To: 'Jim Webber'; He, Hao; David Orchard; Josh Sled; Cutler, Roger > (RogerCutler) > Cc: Michael Champion; www-ws-arch@w3.org > Subject: RE: REST wrap-up (was Re: Web Services Architecture Document > > > Yes, you cannot get lower than 1. However, it is not "the > less the better". > It is "a small set of well-defined verbs" that does the > trick. The Web > already has GET,POST, DEL and PUT, so why reinvent the > "wheel" in SOAP? If > you want to call something Web services, why don't do it the > Web way? What > strikes me is that people want to call SOAP exclusively "the > Web service" > but they just view the Web merely as a transfer protocol. > > Hao > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Webber [mailto:Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:57 > To: He, Hao; David Orchard; Josh Sled; Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) > Cc: Michael Champion; www-ws-arch@w3.org > Subject: RE: REST wrap-up (was Re: Web Services Architecture Document > > > > Hao: > > > I would argue that the reason you want to limit the number of > > verbs is that we are consuming services. > > Fine. I can reduce the number of verbs from my original two (SEND and > RECEIVE) to just one (SEND). That certainly seems like the > minimum I can > get away with, can the REST approach do any better :-) > > Jim >
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