November 25, 2004

Web Services are not Distributed Objects

I'm not sure if I posted this article by Werner (Web Services are not Distributed Objects) or not, but this sentence makes me cringe:

The REST principles are relevant for HTTP bindings, and for the Web server's parsing of resource names, but they are useless in the context of TCP or message-queue bindings where the HTTP verbs do not apply.


The principles of REST apply to any large-scale networked application. I wonder if he has modified his position on this.

1 comment:

Mark Baker said...

I mentioned that to him a while back, but I guess it didn't make the cut. 8-)