{"id":721,"date":"2005-03-20T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/03\/20\/purity\/"},"modified":"2005-03-20T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T02:53:00","slug":"purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/purity\/","title":{"rendered":"Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"

My old friend Steve\nchimes in<\/a>\nwith a thought that seems aimed in my general direction, and therefore seems\nto reflect a misunderstanding of my position;<\/p>\n\n

\nI don’t know of many (any?) pure systems that have significantly succeeded in the real world. If you’re taking a purity approach in this “SOAP vs. REST” debate, and you’ve convinced yourself that you absolutely and for sure know the right answer, regardless of which side you’re on, then you’re either much, much smarter than the rest of us, which is pretty unlikely, or you’re just choosing to ignore important parts of the big picture that don’t fit with your vision of purity. Either way, you’re not really helping yourself or anyone else.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Yes, agreed, purity should not be one’s principle goal.\nBut it’s not my objective in promoting REST to require\nthat everbody must always<\/em> follow it. That would be quite silly.\nNo, my objective is to encourage it be adopted as the defacto guide<\/em>\nthat one uses when setting out to build Internet scale, document oriented,\nservices. Then, even if some constraints need relaxing because to not\ndo so would prevent a requirement of the project from being met<\/em>, you\nat least know what it’s costing you in terms of properties.<\/p>\n\n

It’s that emphasized bit above that is my main concern. For whatever\nreason, SOA\/WS proponents feel that, in trying to leverage Web\ninfrastructure, they need to disregard the (arguably) single most\nimportant constraint of REST (the uniform interface) as a matter of course,\nrather than with any specific justification regarding the requirements of\ntheir project, just with – apparently – the general belief that you need\nservice specific interfaces because DCOM and CORBA used them.<\/p>\n\n

Update; Steve contacted me to say that his comments weren’t\ndirected at me, which I suspected. But because of the ambiguous\ntargetting of his message, I just wanted to set the record straight for\nanybody who thought he might have been talking about me.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My old friend Steve chimes in with a thought that seems aimed in my general direction, and therefore seems to reflect a misunderstanding of my position; I don’t know of many (any?) pure systems that have significantly succeeded in the real world. If you’re taking a purity approach in this “SOAP vs. REST” debate, and […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}