Re: [Nolug] REST

You are correct. Thrift by nature of it's use at Facebook was built
around remote procedure calls. XML-RPC is generally seen as easier to
grasp, grok, and produce for smaller apps (everyone has a different
measuring stick, but the idea of Thrift is to build lots of smaller
components riddled with interfaces and dangle them from the same
framework... nothing new, I know).

I like Thrift just fine, and am working on supporting it via some z3
adapters now.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:53 AM, B. Estrade<estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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