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Francis Norton wrote: > Let's say it simply and clearly. Web Services has exposed a substantial > requirement for queries with complex parameters that cannot (as far I > have seen so far) be expressed as orthodox GETs. The old distinction - > between read-only GETs consisting of {name, value} lists and POSTs, > which have the flexibility to pass XML blocks - is past its sell-by > date. The angels have taken it for a friend. It is an expired paradigm. Your tone reminds me of the OODBMS proponents, circa 1994, saying "well everyone agrees that the relational model is dead {insert monty python references} and OODBMS is the future." Frankly, I think that the predictions of the people who build general- purpose technologies, on the subject of what they're apt to used for, can safely be ignored. (I speak from personal experience here). It seems to me profoundly profoundly silly to assert that the RPC model of fetching information using a service name and some name/value argument pairs is dead. It also seems profoundly silly to assert that the RPC model is the be-all and end-all. The important difference is that that the RPC model, for safe/idempotent operations, can in principle be exposed as a URI. In practice, it can be done cheaply and easily (see my proposal over in www-tag). If it can be done, it should be done. Those who fail to see the benefits of placing the maximum possible amount of information in URI space just Don't Get It and have apparently slept through the last decade. -Tim
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