22 Dec
2008
22 Dec
'08
3:13 p.m.
Pascal Voitot wrote:
From my point of view, REST is an architecture model
which doesn't fit for
anything... Sometimes, you can't fulfill all its requirements and you have
to accept some steps aside the theory...
Well, anything can be made RESTfull. Sometimes it requires critical
changes in the developers' mindset, letting go old URLs and old ways of
doing things. As an example, relational databases were considered absurd
at first, the reviewers of the initial paper considered that it only
fits a few data structures/types, and that traditional storage methods
(structured plain text or binary files) are still the right solution.
The same thing happens with REST. People don't know how to apply it, and
blame the idea, not their habits.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/