{"id":660,"date":"2005-02-01T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/02\/01\/chris-ferris-on-mest-and-uniform-semantics\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T17:18:00","slug":"chris-ferris-on-mest-and-uniform-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/02\/chris-ferris-on-mest-and-uniform-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ferris on MEST and uniform semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/chrisfer\/2005\/02\/mest-up.html\">Chris writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nIMO, the semantics of messages in pub\/sub aren&#8217;t ProcessMessage, they are (or should be) more along the lines of SomethingInterestingHappened. Note the past tense. I think that is the key to achieving a loosely coupled enterprise.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Yes!  If it&#8217;s your intent that all subscribed Web services implement a &#8220;SomethingInterestingHappened&#8221; operation so that documents can be submitted to each one then I&#8217;m totally in synch with that.  I just wonder how it&#8217;s different to all of them implementing HTTP POST or SMTP DATA?<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;SomethingInterestingHappened&#8221; <em>is<\/em> a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_5\">uniform application semantic<\/a>,\nthough.  It&#8217;s good to see Chris getting behind REST principles! 8-)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris writes; IMO, the semantics of messages in pub\/sub aren&#8217;t ProcessMessage, they are (or should be) more along the lines of SomethingInterestingHappened. Note the past tense. I think that is the key to achieving a loosely coupled enterprise. Yes! If it&#8217;s your intent that all subscribed Web services implement a &#8220;SomethingInterestingHappened&#8221; operation so that documents [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}