- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:09:46 -0400
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:22:58AM -0700, David Orchard wrote: > I strongly disagree that normatively specifying a convention for client-side construction of URIs is any ways not restful. Me too. > > It certainly uses a uniform method (GET), which is great. But as I > > tried to describe below, having a convention whereby one needs to > > append "?wsdl" to a Web service URI is not RESTful since it doesn't > > respect the "hypermedia as the engine of application state" > > constraint. By "convention" I specifically meant the "?wsdl" bit, not a framework with which "?wsdl" could be constructed (which I believe is RESTful, since I've designed one[1] for automata). So even if there was a WS-spec which instructed clients to append '?wsdl' to a Web service URI to yield a URI identifying the WSDL, that wouldn't be RESTful. Consider, for example, that Google wouldn't be able to find those WSDL documents, since it doesn't know of that convention. [1] http://www.markbaker.ca/2003/05/RDF-Forms/ Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Seeking work on large scale application/data integration projects and/or the enabling infrastructure for same.
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