Ashley, WS-CDL talks about messages exchanged, not about "operations" or "methods". GET, POST, and PUT provide the means to exchange messages -- in fact, WS-* uses POST to exchange messages, too.
Anne On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Ashley at Metamaxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To bring this whole thing back to the REST vs. SOAP issue: > > All the approaches to choreography that I have seen, including but not > limited to WS-CDL, require that the choreography integration infrastructure > be able to identify the messages exchanged between the participants at the > "business semantics" level: i.e., that "Place Order", "Amend Order", > "Cancel Order", "Make Payment" etc. are distinguishable as such to the > choreography management mechanism. > > Does this mean that REST, whose messages conform to a standardised > vocabulary (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) that does not expose the > messages' business semantics, is incompatible with choreography? > > Any thoughts on this? > > Rgds > Ashley > >
