Web Things, by Mark Baker

Great REST/SOA comparitive example from Stefan.
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Phil Windley says that we need a RESTful service interface description language. I don’t think we do.

Interoperability requires agreement, and agreement begets commoditization. If all the interfaces are the same, what would you describe?

What Phil (and those he links to) needs, I suggest, is simply for these apps to to expose all their data via URIs in as standardized a form as possible, including parameterized state transitions (i.e. a forms language). Implicit in that recommendation is that the data formats used must support and encourage linking, otherwise discovery of all the data becomes problematic.

Many self-described Web 2.0 apps, unfortunately, don’t do those things. They focus on only one aspect of Web 2.0 – more interactive UIs – while forgoing the benefits offered by other important integration-simplifying aspects of it, such as open data.

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Tags: rest, wsdl, integration, web.

“It is not clear where the court derives the authority — or the audacity — to contradict” Congress and the executive branch” You’ve *got* to be kidding me …
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Feel the love!
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“If you choose to partake in the renaissance, be prepared to raise your game to a new level of delight”
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ROTFL! ‘I am simply beside myself with anticipation over the next “revolution” and all the additional simplicity it will bring to my life’
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“The question is, when will the Enterpriseys notice that this is the only thing that has been shown to work”
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XBL – if you don’t know what it is, you will soon … well, maybe next year.
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I missed this one from Micah a few months back. Super. Another term is “principled design”.
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Hire Joe!
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