Web Things, by Mark Baker

Don’t get hung up on the “object” there; it’s a logical view.

The picture is meant to capture the essence of what I see as the fundamental misunderstanding/mistake of Web services. This misunderstanding goes by several names;

• transport vs. transfer; transfer gets you all the way to the business logic, while transport only gets you as far as the interface.
• tunneling
• uniform vs. specific interfaces
• late binding; an identifier is sufficient to get you direct access to the state & logic
• a priori information; see late binding; deployed agreement on HTTP & URIs suffices

When I hear “application integration”, I’m thinking the bottom picture, not the top, because APIs just get in the way.