Erik Hatcher's Blog

Taking a REST

Paraphasing, this is the quote that stuck out from this presentation: REST architectures tend to be resilient to changes.

I must admit to being much more fond of the REST side of things. URL's matter to me. I'm mainly speaking about URL's that users see - they should be elegant and meaningful. For computer to computer URL's and Web Services, its a different story.

Comments

• All URLs matter
  It's not just the one's that users will see. The programmers will have to deal with URLs and they will calcify those URLs into programs and programs are notoriously less resilient than people.

  Posted by: johnm on June 24, 2003 at 09:09 AM

• I know this is a really old blog but I've only just started investigating REST and thought I should make this comment:

  You talk about "REST Versus Web Services Architecture", but I believe, from my readings on the subject, that REST IS a web services architecture. In fact, a lot of people are annoyed that M$ and IBM have made the term "web services" equivalent with SOAP, when this should not be the case. That's the impression I've gotten, anyway: that REST is a different (non-RPC) architecture for implementing web services.

  Posted by: grlea on February 24, 2005 at 04:17 PM

• goos article. very infomative. the comments put the stuff into perspective.
  order taking

  Posted by: ordertaking on October 02, 2006 at 08:00 AM

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