Hi Lloyd,
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:35:05 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
Valentino is better qualified to respond than I. But you've convinced
me... provided that we have a really good definition of "Resource."
Fair enough, I think the Wikipedia definition is pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_(Web)
"Resource" is one of the concepts that baffled me last year. I couldn't
get my head around what folks were talking about. Your phrase "The thing
that a URL.points to..." definitely helps me see the bigger picture.
Saying this, I realize that my own work has been moving away from the
simple "set of linked pages" model. The Resource concept should give me
better language to talk about what I've been doing.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is the concept that I most often
use when considering resources in a web application.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#Resources
Since naive folks like me are accustomed to thinking in terms of "pages,"
it would probably be good to sharpen up and present your argument that
many web apps today have more complex structures than "set of linked
pages." We could explicitly point out that abstracting the notion of
"page" to "Resource," opens the mind to more creative possiblies, then
present a few examples of these possibilties. We should definitely
include
"page" as an an example of a "Resource," along with a few other examples.
Agreed.
I didn't really "get it" at first, because I had always though in terms
of "web pages". Once I read Fielding's paper and started thinking about
logical resources, rather than "every URL is a web page", everything just
fell into place, and I have a much easier time designing web applications
these days, even if I don't make them strictly in a REST-style.
Want to try your hand at a crisp, evocative definition with examples?
Hopefully, we can just provide links to the two resources I cited, above.
That's sort of recursive, in a way, but there you have it.
Many thanks,
Not at all, thanks to you and the others on the list who got the ball
rolling again.
L. Daniel Burr
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