Roy T. Fielding on REST-*
September 17th, 2009
Roy Fielding offers his opinion on the REST-* effort:
…
Quite frankly, this is the single dumbest attempt at one-sided
“standardization” of anti-REST architecture that I have ever seen.
It even manages to one-up the previous all-time-idiocy of IBM
when they renamed their CORBA toolkit “Web Services” in a
deliberate attempt to confuse customers into thinking they
had something to do with the Web.…
Ouch.
And, the rest of the post is tastily testy as well. Next paragraph:
“Distributed transactions are an architectural component of
non-REST interaction. Message queues are a common integration
technique for non-REST architectures. To claim that either one
is a component of “Pragmatic REST” is the equivalent of putting
a giant Red Dunce Hat on your head and then parading around as
if it were the latest fashion statement.”
On the constructive side of things, Roy suggests that the best starting place for REST definitions and patterns is the RestWiki, edited by Mark Baker, best starting page here: http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RestFaq
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