Re: [Nolug] REST

From: B. Estrade <estrabd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:21 -0500
Message-ID: <20090625125021.GI68924@bc3.lsu.edu>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:58:15AM -0500, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> That's good to hear... I just thought the use of hypermedia was comical.

Hypermedia is serious business and should not be mocked!

Seriously, though, have you looked at Facebook's "Thrift" framework?
The last time I did, it looked pretty cool.

  http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/

And don't look now, but it's an Apache Incubator project now! I am not
sure if that is a good thing, but it is a sign that it is getting some
real attention.

Brett :)

>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed June 24 2009 5:56 pm, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
> > >
> > > *Representational state transfer* (*REST*) is a style of software
> > > architecture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture> for
> > > distributed hypermedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia> systems
> > > such as the World Wide Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
> > >.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Hypermedia" - wow, I haven't heard that one in a while..
> >
> > REST has more going for it than random buzzwords.
> >
> > --
> > Joey Kelly
> > Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant
> > http://joeykelly.net
> >
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