Re: Binding

Miles:
  I agree with your sentiments completely.

  There IS something in there; perhaps, like Leonardo da Vinci, it is 
our job to cut away from the wooden block (pun intended) what is NOT 
Web services!
Frank

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:30  PM, Miles Sabin wrote:

>
> David Orchard wrote,
>> Excellent.  I'd tried to do the same earlier as well.  There's a
>> little bit more to do to finish this off.
> <snip/>
>
> Before you get _too_ enthusiastic, I'd just like to point out that I
> think there _are_ interesting ideas lurking in REST once you get past
> the proselytizing, and they don't depend on human interaction any more
> than any other approach.
>
> IMO, what's distinctive and interesting about REST is that it
> corresponds quite naturally to a programming model surprisingly similar
> to formal models of distributed and mobile systems, the Pi calculus in
> particular. That model is _very_ different from RPC-like programming
> models, and definitely worth consideration, especially wrt
> choreography/orchestration.
>
> I'm against obfuscation, not REST, and saddened that half-baked (no pun
> intended) advocacy is getting in the way of teasing out it's genuine
> merits.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Miles
>