It is a moderated group, since I'm not a member I'm assuming that comment must be aproved before appearing. D.
________________________________ From: Anne Kathrine Petteroe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sun 12/21/2008 20:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pretty scathing critique of our REST API Where did you leave a comment, Dick? I cannot see it anywhere. - Anne On 21. des.. 2008, at 19.46, Hirsch, Richard wrote: > There is a whole thread linked to the initial post. Scroll to the > bottom of the page. > > D. > > ________________________________ > > From: Vassil Dichev [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sun 12/21/2008 19:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Pretty scathing critique of our REST API > > > > AFAICT, this has nothing to do with the technical merits of the > application, but rather with the correctness of the term. The name is > the easiest thing to fix. ESME might not be using the name "REST" > correctly in the strictest sense, but neither are most of the popular > "terms", such as Ajax. > > I don't want to sound dismissive, but I've seen more scathing remarks > about the correctness of REST: > http://java.dzone.com/articles/rest-http > > BTW, where can I see the response in the yahoo group? > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Hirsch, Richard > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please read the whole thread from the yahoo group message. I've >> commented and ask them to join the conversation at esme-dev. >> >> D. >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: Hirsch, Richard >> Sent: Sun 12/21/2008 13:23 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Pretty scathing critique of our REST API >> >> >> >> Just found this after following a link on the scala reddit >> (http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/12/esme_twitter_clone_in_scala.html >> ) >> >> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/11862 >> >> "Esme's API is as bad anything I saw in the SOAP/XMLRPC days. I'm >> dumbfounded this can get incubated in the ASF." >> >> Yikes. >> >> D. >> >> >> >> > >
