Re: SOA with REST title now available worldwide

In my company, we figured that SOA principles were suited for our needs at
the begining of the year. And we adopted REST principles a few weeks ago,
as a usefull adding to our design needs. As far as I'm concerned, both make
a quite complete architecture guideline.

+1, then :)

François

2012/8/19 mike amundsen <[email protected]>

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> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Benjamin Carlyle <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Gentlefolk,
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>> I haven't posted here for a while, but many of you know me as having been
>> active to varying degrees in the REST community for about 6 years now. I
>> have some significant experience implementing REST in machine to machine
>> environments (browser free environments) in backend business systems,
>> realtime safety-related control systems, and a number of other esoteric
>> environments that involve leading people and negotiating internal and
>> business to business interfaces with people with varying levels of REST
>> expertise and enthusiasm. Over the last few years I have been working with
>> a number of others on the title mentioned in the subject line.
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>> It's a title I don't expect to pass by this list without criticism. It
>> uses vocabulary that is often more on the SOA side than on the REST side.
>> It focuses on REST "service contracts" (the set of urls exposed by a server
>> and the server-specific meaning of standard methods and media types in
>> those resources) as a standard tool for governing "REST services" as part
>> of an overall service inventory. It focuses almost entirely on machine to
>> machine interaction within the context of IT assets of a single enterprise.
>> It doesn't deal much with browsers or mashups and it even spends a
>> significant amount of time addressing issues like transactions and pub/sub.
>> Perhaps for some the very fact that Thomas Erl's name is on the cover well
>> push some buttons :)
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>> Nevertheless we collectively and I in particular have worked hard not to
>> compromise on REST principles and constraints while still making the
>> content accessible to SOA people and the general population. Within this
>> context of heavy machine to machine interaction we deal with defining a
>> uniform interface to cover an inventory of services within a particular
>> enterprise, and how that should relate to service contracts and to broader
>> standardisation efforts. We look to move past SOA's traditional limit of
>> increasing intrinsic interoperability only within a given inventory and
>> instead look for standard methods and media types to increase
>> interoperability to more massive scales.
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>> We have sought to keep hypermedia core to the practice of building
>> inventories of services and their related customers and to minimise
>> coupling while also being explicit about why we do this. We have sought to
>> drive a hard line on the stateless constraint and what that means to the
>> aforementioned patterns of transactions (promoting compensating over
>> atomic) and pub/sub (promoting cached polling and delta encoding).
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>> Some of you have already seen the material in various stages of
>> completion as have many SOA guys. Over the last six months or so the
>> manuscript changed significantly as we worked that feedback into the
>> finished product.
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>> No book is perfect, but I hope this one will end up bringing the REST and
>> SOA worlds together in a closer understanding without compromising one iota
>> of what is important to each. I'm confident that despite the unfamiliar
>> wording, context and audience that the book is written to be applied to
>> that at its heart is a true application of REST constraints and to every
>> possible extent a true application of the years of experience the REST
>> community has developed.
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>> The book is available in ebook and hard cover:
>> Amazon - http://amzn.com/0137012519
>> Barnes and Noble -
>> http://search.barnesandnoble.com/SOA-with-REST/Thomas-Erl/e/9780137012510(seriously? No permalink?)
>> Home - http://servicetechbooks.com/rest
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>> Comments, discussion and criticism (timidly) welcome. I can't think of a
>> better place to discuss the end result than this list.
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