[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: SOAP/SOA and REST/ROA ???

  • From: noah_mendelsohn@u...
  • To: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:45:56 -0500

Re:  SOAP/SOA and REST/ROA ???
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
--------------------------------------






[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index]


PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.