{"id":639,"date":"2005-01-19T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/01\/19\/ws-addressing-drops-refprops-web-services-get-a-little-more-restful\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T23:27:00","slug":"ws-addressing-drops-refprops-web-services-get-a-little-more-restful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/01\/ws-addressing-drops-refprops-web-services-get-a-little-more-restful\/","title":{"rendered":"WS-Addressing drops RefProps; Web services get a little more RESTful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive kudos to the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2002\/ws\/addr\/\">WS-Addressing WG<\/a>\n(in particular\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-ws-addressing\/2005Jan\/0086.html\">Dave Orchard<\/a>)\nfor agreeing to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2002\/ws\/addr\/wd-issues\/#i001\">drop reference properties<\/a>\nfrom the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2004\/WD-ws-addr-core-20041208\/\">WS-Addressing specification<\/a>!!\nThis addresses the most\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2004\/10\/08#2004-10-w3c-addressing\">major(!) concern<\/a>\nI had with the specification, and leaves EPRs as a means for bundling a URI\nwith some state; cookies meet XML, as it were.<\/p>\n\n<p>This decision means that a by-the-book EPR will contain only a single resource-identifying\ndata element; a URI.  In other words, the WG is adopting the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm\">REST<\/a>\nconstraint of a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_2_1_1\">single resource-identifying data element<\/a>.\nMore concretely, it means that Web services will actually be <em>encouraging<\/em>\nthe use of URIs for identifying things, rather than the old practice of\nusing them as\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2003\/12\/10#2003-12-wsi-uri\">dispatch points<\/a>\nbehind which countless resources were hidden.  This is <em>HUGE<\/em>,\nbecause in my experience, once you&#8217;ve adopted URIs, the use of http URIs and therefore HTTP\n(buh bye protocol independence) just naturally follow due to the massive\nnetwork effects of the Web.  The use of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_3_3\">&#8220;hypermedia as the engine of application state&#8221;<\/a>\nis the next obvious constraint for adoption after that.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that with this decision, Web services might have just stepped inside the Web&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceworld.wolfram.com\/physics\/SchwarzschildRadius.html\">Schwarzschild Radius<\/a>.\nStay tuned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massive kudos to the WS-Addressing WG (in particular Dave Orchard) for agreeing to drop reference properties from the WS-Addressing specification!! This addresses the most major(!) concern I had with the specification, and leaves EPRs as a means for bundling a URI with some state; cookies meet XML, as it were. This decision means that a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,40],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-w3c","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}