Re: Thought of the day:

Jan Algermissen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.distributed
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:17 PM, David Hull wrote:

>
> "The REST interface is designed to be efficient for large-grain
> hypermedia data transfer, optimizing for the common case of the  
> Web, but
> resulting in an interface that is not optimal for other forms of
> architectural interaction." -Roy Thomas Fielding, "Architectural  
> Styles
> and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Chapter 5.
>

Yes....and?

I bet not even the most bigot RESTafarian would ever propose to use  
REST as the architectural style for implementing word processors, eh?

Jan

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