Re: Visibility (was Re: Introducing the Service Oriented Architectural style, and it's constraints and properties.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:50:34AM -0800, Ugo Corda wrote:
> > Yah, APIs.  HTTP provides a standardized one.
> 
> Wait a minute. API signatures include both procedure names and parameters. In HTTP I see a standardized procedure name, but what about the standardized parameters?

Well, if you view the HTTP API as;

interface Resource
{
  Entity GET( Headers )
  Entity PUT( Headers, Entity )
  Entity POST( Headers, Entity )
  etc..
}

Then I guess that the headers and the entity would be considered
parameters.  Some headers are standardized too, of course.  Is that
what you had in mind?

MB
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