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RE: REST has too many verbs

• To: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: REST has too many verbs
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:14:16 -0600

And keeping it loosely coupled means not needing 
to know much more than that to start the conversation. 
That's email. It is discovery-based.

But a conversation is not a protocol.  A protocol 
(by any of the definitions I've seen), sets 
expectations precisely.   It seems to me that the 
UDDI methods are there precisely because the 
gestures/speech acts are "relevance feedback 
control" and the designers specifically want 
the 'advantages' of that architecture over 
'downloadable feature engines' or a 'single proxy'.

BTW: if the WSIO gets traction, and uses UDDI 
as announced, what do you think based on your 
work with REST, the results will be?

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]

Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> 
> I think it's questionable whether the unification has more to do with
> GET than with URI's themselves. FWIW. 

Be careful. URIs aren't innovative either. They are just email
addresses. 

"REST therefore gains the separation of concerns of the client-server
style without the server scalability problem, allows information hiding
through a generic interface to enable encapsulation and
evolution of services, and provides for a diverse set of functionality
through downloadable feature-engines."

"This constraint sacrifices some of the advantages of other
architectures, such as the stateful interaction of a relevance 
feedback protocol like WAIS, in order to retain the
advantages of a single, generic interface for connector semantics. In
return, the generic interface makes it possible to access a multitude 
of services through a single proxy."

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