On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Todd Grigsby <tgrigsby...@gmail.com> wrote: >> RPC and REST are both used to implement Web services, and that's where the >> semantic similarities end. I only brought it up because Amazon touts >> DynamoDB as REST, but it's anything but. I find it aggravating when some >> noob creates a Web service and slaps a REST label on it because he read an >> article about it, but doesn't understand what it means. Even worse, Amazon >> does have experience creating actual REST services, so you would think >> someone there would have stopped the announcement and corrected the online >> docs and marketing blurbs. >> > > That's obviously a pretty impassioned response.. I don't think it's > quite that far, since I generally think of RPC -- in it's general form > -- as doing something sufficiently high level to abstract away the > differences between the protocols. Here, I'm talking about any > general utility that lets you interface between systems written in > very different ways.. I'd agree with your sentiment of REST being used > as a buzzword, but I'm not sure you can say that they have nothing in > common except both being used in web services. (I guess now that I > think about it more, however, REST does feel much less than the > typical things I see in RC, but all he necessary requirements to > implement the traditional stuff are there, there's nothing lacking in > inherent expressivity, though I suppose this is like saying the > differences between Haskell and the lambda calculus isn't that much..) > > kris
To update, however, I'm expecting you'll write back a response beating down my viewpoints of this idea, as many REST people seem to have a pretty heated opinion on this point, that's fine. I wasn't viewing this in a very implementation minded way, and I'd prefer not to argue about it.. kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
