Bob La Quey wrote:
Correct the WWW is loosely coupled, because HTTP is stateless. Again see also Roy Fielding's thesis, which comment has been completely ignored:
Didn't really ignore it as such. It's just a relatively small bit of the protocols that go on.
There are a number of ways to make things loosely coupled. REST is one, that only works well if your problem fits into that sort of domain. Almost none of the systems I've seen actually implement REST properly.
For example, any web site with a custom login page isn't REST. Amazon's cloud stuff isn't REST. They're all RESTish, but fail in the details that give you the benefits of REST.
I think this guy understands the issues.
For that field of endeavor, sure. Show me a REST design for email sending and receiving, or a REST design for remote logins (like X Windows or RDP, say).
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