Just an FYI on whats happening with this is OASIS - the decision to accept it into the Bindings TC was postponed for a week - see http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-bindings/200810/msg00094.html
...ant On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent, thanks Dan. > > ...ant > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Dan Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I've not read the OSOA HTTP binding spec, but I do have some Tuscany >> experience with the HTTP and Atom bindings. I am especially interested in >> their support for caching and conditional commands. >> >> I gladly would like to help out on this one. >> >> >> Simon Laws wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I briefly read the draft. My impression is that it tries to come up some >>>> sort of poor-man's Web Service support over HTTP using RPC style >>>> (tunneling >>>> the invocations over HTTP). What are the advantages over SOAP/HTTP or >>>> JSONRPC/HTTP? I'm wondering if it would be better to focus on the REST >>>> style >>>> by mapping HTTP methods into a set of business operations that deal with >>>> resources. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Raymond >>>> >>>> From: ant elder >>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:50 AM >>>> To: dev@tuscany.apache.org >>>> Subject: Draft OASIS spec for binding.http >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> A draft spec for an HTTP binding has been posted to the OASIS bindings >>>> mailing list - >>>> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-bindings/200810/msg00078.html >>>> >>>> It has some interesting things such as using the new wireFormat element >>>> and >>>> the suggestion that you could extend that for atom and json support. I'm >>>> interested in doing an implementation of this spec, anyone interested in >>>> helping? >>>> >>>> ...ant >>>> >>>> >>> I think this will fall into the different strokes for different folks >>> category. If OASIS pick this up then people will want to use this binding >>> so >>> we should look at it. We can then probably give OASIS some good feedback >>> on >>> how to improve the spec. In the PHP SCA implementation we had a similar >>> "REST" binding and people quite liked it. Don't have an opinion on basing >>> the Web2.0 bindings on it. >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Thanks, Dan Becker >> > >