REST-*
September 16th, 2009
REST-*.org arrived today. I think the name is highly unfortunate, immediately evoking bad impressions from WS-*.
In their defense, they are doing many things right. These bullets come from their site:
- Specifications may not require any field of use restrictions or fees to get access to a certification testsuite or to pass certification.
- All source code for certification tests must be open sourced under the ASL 2.0 license.
- Specifications must be discussed in the open on a public mailing list.
- All drafts, source code, and any issue tracking system must be made available for anyone to read.
- Specifications, source code, and certification efforts must be licensed under ASL 2.0.
- etc…basically, don’t be like Sun and the JCP. (my take)
A big chunk of the fledgling web site is devoted to explaining how REST-* is different than WS-*. I do hope someone re-thinks the name.
The question is are they building upon ReST the architecture or ReST the brand.
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Wish I could use that as the official logo. Too bad it is trademarked in a big way.
Lol… very nice.