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Re: ANN: REST Tutorial

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• Subject: Re: ANN: REST Tutorial
• From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@h...>
• Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:18:41 -0600
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:33:00AM -0400, John Evdemon wrote:
> 
> > Because anything truly new is also unrecognizable.  It 
> > will sit on the shelf while the insanely restless play 
> > with it and adapt it.  Over some period of time they 
> > will get results that others will covet and emulate. 
> 
> Or blow the budget on something that may never gain acceptance.

Meaning REST-based Web Services? If so, the article you cite:

> http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/05/20/squander.htm

doesn't support your case. If anything, it supports the case against
the RPC model. It says little or nothing about the dangers of using
non-mainstream technologies (though perhaps it should); rather, it's
all about the dangers of companies uncritically accepting technologies
based on marketing hype, or on the perception that "everyone is doing
it," or on the untempered desires of techies to introduce cool new
technology. And the money was squandered, says the author, because
many of these "innovations" either failed to perform or were laden
with unnecessary features.

The push for REST-based Web Services is all about doing more with
less, and it is centered on technologies that have already gained 
near-universal presence in the business world.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee@h...
http://www.havenrock.com/

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