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Mike Champion writes: > Where I might disagree is using the label REST to describe the > implementation of a *service* via HTTP: If the fundamantal > abstraction is a "service", what value does the "resource" > abstraction add here, and why is it useful to talk about exchanging > a representation of the resource as opposed to invoking a service? From a customer's or system integrator's perspective: I want to access the service that tells me where my package is. From the network architect's perspective: I've chosen to use REST. The way REST models this is to provide a "resource" that has as its state the location of the package, mint a URI a for that resource, and use HTTP GET to get a representation that tells me where the package is. I think you are going just a bit to far in identifying SOA with plumbing. SOA is, I think, closer to what I've set out as the customer's and system implementor's perspective above. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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