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Hi Didier: Right. The principle of rationality is a weak predictor of human choice and behavior. Given a choice in which one is pleasurable and one is not, humans usually choose pleasure. The Web, as we are taught, multiplied based on ease, not technical merit. Still, the TAG is concerned about warrantied behavior, and so has left the domain of "What is easy and simple must be good." That is why students are taught dharma; it is the understanding of right choice that over time, wealth is increased and then the choices of pleasure are multiplied. But that is the way of discipline, not because it is gratuitous, but because it is sustainable. Still, the scenario you outline depends on there being web services the user desires to drag and drop. Unless we build them, they have nothing to choose from. If we build them, can we support our own choice of choices? I guess because my original markup grounding was in the DoD community in which sustaining systems for very long lifecycles was the problem put to us, I still tend to think in those terms. I understand some markets don't require that and purchase new technology every three to five years without a backward glance. I confess that today my thoughts have had to turn to the ability to rapidly and reliably hook up systems not originally designed to interoperate, and for these, the idea that one can tie a COM bag to the side, dump it into the IIS directory and get a connection is very attractive. We are in one of those, "waste anything but time" periods of technical development. len From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@n...] Hi Len Yep. If REST architecture could be as much as possible stamped "guru free", made as simple as possible, then let the demand and supply do the rest (no pun intented here, Nah... not true that was on purpose :0 ) In any cases, the payoff should be clear and well grounded in realities. Simple enough that that in just 30 seconds we can convince somebody in an elevator about the merits of REST. I know, not easy. Now this time we have just to imagine a guy opening a laptop, doing a drag and drop operation, writing a single line of code and bang saying "see, I connected and used a web service". This guy just showed "ease of use" in a couple of seconds. If, in contrario, we have to bring the guy to the local "philosophical circle" to discuss the merits of the technology for 2 hours at the least, then sorry, Len is right, we've missed the target. Hint: Economy of bandwith is not a strong argument. Economy of time or money is. Humans are humans, tell them "what its in it for them" and they'll repond.
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