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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:01 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > Robert Koberg wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 08:38 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > >> Andrew Welch wrote: > >>>> I can always create abstraction layer upon abstraction layer. They make > >>>> pretty piles, until they fall over. > >>> How about creating a servlet called something like update, then map > >>> all urls to it: > >> That's not RESTful - that's putting an update verb in a URI noun. > > > > updater? > > No. The reason REST works is that you have a limited set of verbs (GET, > PUT, POST, DELETE) operating on a huge set of nouns - the URIs. just quibbling, but 'updater' is a noun. It can be used with any of the verbs. > > The problem here isn't finding update capabilities - POST already > provides that. The problem is addressing resources at a granularity > level that's more convenient for doing updates than a complete document. > > Thanks, > Simon St.Laurent > Retired XML troublemaker > http://simonstl.com/
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