On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijnde...@yahoo.com> wrote:
<snip> > I'm still not sure what to think of the REST API. Do you want to have a IMAP > 'replacement' that is RESTful, or just an abstraction over a simple key-value > store? (I just realized that, in a way, a CouchDB mailbox is already a REST > interface to James) > > Interesting reading material: http://www.prescod.net/rest/restmail/ :-) REST [1] is often in the eye of the beholder ;-) I often like to think of mail as a sea of resources - documents and directories (and their meta-data) located by uniform descriptors - as a contrast to the mainstream perspective focused on pushing bits between file systems over heterogeneous networks. But I'm happy for anyone else to reach their own opinion on what RESTful mail should really mean... Robert [1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
