• To: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Subject: Re: REST has too many verbs
• From: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:23:46 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200202112151.QAA09003@m...>
• References: <200202112151.QAA09003@m...>

On Monday 11 February 2002 21:51, you wrote:

> getFile(), getName(), getArticle(), getStockQuote() were what we had
> *before* the Web.  I can't see any reason to go back after seeing
> what can be achieved with GET.

Thinking on different scales. An object-oriented distributed hypermedia 
system would have getName() et al depending on the precise class of object 
involved - and a standard interface, getUserView(), that returns HTML or 
whatever.

With the Web, we got the HTML-retrieval part and now we have to do all this 
XML mess to get back to getName() and friends (computer-accessible 
interfaces...)

ABS

-- 
                               Alaric B. Snell
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