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> This is of course what encapsulation is all about. Encapsulation > prevents hacking; it raises the level of abstraction; it prevents > programmers getting locked into today's implementation of an abstract > service. The XML representation is itself the product of the generic encapsulation of the underlying resource provided by HTTP/1.1. To imply that an XML-RPC API (for example) is an encapsulation and HTTP is not, to me simply isn't accurate. They are both encapsulations; the question is: which encapsulation is better able to address the trade-offs that you raise.
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