WS and REST are just the mechanisms, its the application level semantics that are important so both REST and WS can do this, but you have to define the work at the next level up.
Steve 2008/8/30 Ashley at Metamaxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > >
