![](\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/images\/slot.jpg\")
\n\nWilliam Henry wrote a little piece called\nPoor Service Semantics<\/a>\nwhere he criticizes uses of CORBA IDL that offer operations like “runIt” or “doIt”. He\nwrites;<\/p>\n\n Rubbish! “what the business actually is doing” is determined by the\nimplementation<\/em> of the service. Do you want clients of your\nservices to have dependencies upon those implementations? I thought\nnot. We have a name for that practice, “tight coupling”.<\/p>\n\n submitPizzaOrder() tells you less about what the business is doing\nthan submitPepperoniPizzaOrder(), but is it somehow less of business semantic\nas a result? No, of course not, it’s just more general. Likewise,\nsubmitOrder() is more general still, and submit() yet more general again …\nso general in fact that it can’t be generalized any further (i.e. it’s\nuniform<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n doIt, runIt, submit,\nprocessMessage<\/a>, or\nPOST<\/a>;\nwhatever you want to call your “process this document” semantic, it’s most\ndefinitely a business operation, just a\nhighly reusable<\/a>\none.<\/p>\n\n Tags:\nsoa<\/a>,\nrest<\/a>,\nmest<\/a>,\nwebservices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Henry wrote a little piece called Poor Service Semantics where he criticizes uses of CORBA IDL that offer operations like “runIt” or “doIt”. He writes; The problem with these is that the semantics are lost as to what the business actually is doing. Rubbish! “what the business actually is doing” is determined by the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nThe problem with these is that the semantics are lost as to what the business actually is doing.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n