Comments on: xml, web services, simple things are beautiful, yada yada yada

By: tanmay

tanmay — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:57:41 +0000

Your style rocks!! I would read more about SOAP and W-*. But you gave me the best solution.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:19:06 +0000

Yep, I also know and like XML-RPC - deliberately kept simple and elegant.

By: Gaetano Giunta

Gaetano Giunta — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:06:23 +0000

I am confident you know well enough XML-RPC (and its implementations in PHP) to have pondered over its benefits/disadvantages vis-a-vis REST, but for me it sits really in the middle of the 80/20 magical line: very easy to understand, easy enough to implement, plenty of libs for every possible platform under the sun

By: Douglas Clifton

Douglas Clifton — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:33:53 +0000

Paul James is a REST advocate and he maintains a blog you might want to visit:

http://www.peej.co.uk/thinking/rest

There is also a REST mailing list for developers:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss

Hi Laura, enjoyed your book. Drop me an email if you get the chance.

Doug

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:07:30 +0000

I’m told the term REST was coined by Roy Fielding in his PhD thesis. You can read the relevant chapter here:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm

By: Max Case

Max Case — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:05:49 +0000

A link to REST would be handy

thanks