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REST protocols making the rounds
Looks like one of my older posts about how to think when building REST XML protocols is making the rounds in the blogosphere.
That post was originally written to vent a little while I was trying to save a project that was consuming a very poorly designed XML web service. It was a continual process of me just shaking my head about the poor design decisions made on both sides of the system and how easy it would have been to avoid if they could have just thought a little bit differently. There are many other things to consider beyond what the post talks about, but my major point there is to simply think XML.
Hmm, “Designing REST protocols by thinking in XML”. Sounds like a good title for an article.
Note: comments are turned off on the original post so this post can be used instead.
This entry was posted by Kimbro Staken on Saturday, June 17th, 2006 at 11:13 am and is filed under General, XML, Programming, Syncato. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.
July 13th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Very good point that I will reuse to educate on loosely coupling.
You should read the article from Tim Bray http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/08/No-New-XML-Languages who promotes to reuse existing languages and to add constraints rather than inventing XML languages. Another great example is S5 from Eric Meyer http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ which is a great example of the benefits of a good design of XML