Since everyone is blogging about REST I was feeling left out, so here is my post.
Think about this as ordering a Domino’s Pizza.
You make a call and you get something in return. If you do it while lying down on the recliner, that is very RESTful.
If Howard Dean is screaming for a pizza, that isn’t very RESTful.
See how simple this all is? Ordering from a lazy-boy recliner, RESTful. Having Howard Dean order the pizza, not RESTful. All this talk about ATOM, COBRA, COM, HTTP, SOA, SOAP just confuses folks (if I wasn’t so hungry I probably would have used a Simpson’s example, but you’ll have to deal with this because I’m going to order a pizza right now).
11 responses so far ↓
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Bull_UK
// Aug 14, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Mmmm pizza
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Bill
// Aug 14, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Whew! Glad that’s cleared up.
Oh, don’t forget the beer.
3
Erin
// Aug 14, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Damn funny James. I’ve been wondering about all these “REST examples” people have been coming up with.
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Sean Gillies
// Aug 14, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Couldn’t you have worked in the dork with white hat and iPod or the meditating babes? That would really clear things up.
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James Fee
// Aug 14, 2007 at 4:05 pm
The “Dork” is only for ESRI podcasts. I can’t just trot him out for anything as unimportant as REST.
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Bill
// Aug 14, 2007 at 4:09 pm
It’s those kinds of standards that keep us coming back.
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Chad
// Aug 14, 2007 at 4:43 pm
But how does it work with Manifold though?
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KoS
// Aug 14, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Only took 7 posts!!
KoS
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Bill
// Aug 14, 2007 at 6:00 pm
That depends. Intake or exhaust?
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August
// Aug 15, 2007 at 6:58 am
I’m confused.
Do they cache the pizzas at your house ahead of time?
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James Fee
// Aug 15, 2007 at 7:21 am
Good question, maybe I should have used DiGiorno and cached them in my freezer.
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