{"id":19,"date":"2007-02-19T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cetis.ac.uk\/adam\/2007\/02\/19\/rest-o-rant\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T12:19:07","slug":"rest-o-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/rest-o-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"REST-o-rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit of a sceptic when it comes to REST and the SOAP vs REST “debate”. There seems to be a tinge of hatred of corporate IT and dogmatic promotion of niche programming languages. There has been quite a lot of REST-o-ranting on the topic and I am not going to go there now.<\/p>\n

REST does interest me in the influence it has on service design; indeed I have been a little worried that a lot of alleged SOA is not as loosely coupled as the philosophers would like and that, even when using document-style (rather than rpc style) SOAP, it is too easy to be led astray into, for example: OO thinking, CRUD. REST is both attractive in lending itself to loose coupling and unattractive in drawing one towards class-oriented design rather than business process oriented design so I thought I would have an attempt at a REST approach to IMS Enterprise Services v1. Scott Wilson had a look at a “REST-style” approach to IMS Enterprise Services<\/a> some time ago but this isn’t in the same style that I look at, which I think is more fundamentalist resource-centric. I don’t think either of us is actually saying that real implementations of IMS Enterprise would never want to use the WS-* stack; it offers a heap of valuable heavy-weight capabilities.<\/p>\n

My first cut is available in PDF: \"IMS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit of a sceptic when it comes to REST and the SOAP vs REST “debate”. There seems to be a tinge of hatred of corporate IT and dogmatic promotion of niche programming languages. There has been quite a lot of REST-o-ranting on the topic and I am not going to go there now. … Continue reading REST-o-rant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilltop-cottage.info\/blogs\/arc12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}