• To: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@b...>
• Subject: RE: Did Documents Win? No. Objects Just Couldn't GetTheir ActTogether.
• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
• Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:08:33 -0500
• Cc: Jeffrey Winter <JeffreyWinter@c...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>, Michael Champion <michael.champion@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1140736851.3562.21.camel@macross>

> But I think the hardest thing to understand about REST isn't the
> semantics of the operations per se, but how exactly to define what the
> resource is so that the operations make sense.

Yes, naming in distributed systems has long been recognized as a a very 
important, subtle, and hard problem.

I used to say REST is just federated naming, but nobody understood me.

        /r$

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