Re: [Nolug] REST

It seems that Thrift is more RPCish than RESTful - thoughts?

Brett

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:50:21AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote:
> 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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