2006/11/08
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I knew I recognized crummy.com (home of Leonard Richardson of recent REST book fame) from somewhere! I used BeautifulSoup for a project a couple of years ago.
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New AC outfitting for international executive-first.
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“In short, if SOAP is only useful when used in conjunction with the advanced WS framework, then, for the time being at least, SOAP isn’t useful at all” Ding! Subscribed. P.S. Pete – one word to respond to your last paragraph; Atom.
Mark,
Regarding Atom, agreed. Left off for the sake of expediency. I would add, though, that something official is needed. If REST can describe _any_ RESTful system, then it would be handy to _formally_ describe RESTful services over HTTP to remove some of the ambiguity. Whether that be incorporating Atom and APP, standardizing on a description language, or what not. That is, REST is the model, and “REST Services” are the implementation.
I guess we disagree there. Roy’s commented before that formal descriptions of REST are problematic. I don’t recall the reasons but I would expect complexity of the descriptions – as well as of the required input in order to validate – would be a large barrier to its use even if you could build a complete model. Description languages are also unnecessary because RESTful messages are self-descriptive.
IME, there’s exceedingly little ambiguity in the description of REST in Roy’s dissertation. On a few occasions I thought there was some, only to later learn from Roy that it’s covered. IMO, it’s *far* more rigorous a description than most people even need today.