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 Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > I agree with this... but I also think it points out a problem: the web > browser is being used both as an information delivery tool and as an > application deployment platform. > > I've often felt that the requirements for those two things are so > vastly different that different tools should be used... one way or > another, publishing to the web and developing web-based applications > is simply too hard and too expensive... Wow, this is a problem? I would have said that it is the Web's (and therefore, by implication, REST's) biggest strength. The fact of the matter is that besides a handful of infrastructure, development and design/authoring tools, all of which could plausibly be supplied by one vendor (whose name could plausibly start with "M"), nearly every application involves nothing more than displaying information and soliciting additional information from users using forms, with some straightforward notion of business logic (i.e. for data validation and moving the user from one screen to the next). The underlying tools to develop these applications aren't especially convenient, although they are improving. Personally I'm confident that application frameworks that are more oriented towards configuration (e.g. feeding document schemas and business-process flows into a generic application engine) will eventually prevail over "real" development frameworks and will go a long way towards making the creation of web applications easier and more accessible. But the real point is that it is exactly the capability of web applications to combine information browsing with application functionality that makes the paradigm so compelling. Matt 
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