Labnotes » Rounded Corners - 124 (Five kinds of wrong)

Mandatory REST commentary. Bill de hÃ“ra comments on REST and Web services in WSDL 2.0:

“REST mostly uses HTTP as the transport,” - I stopped reading right there

Well, I took a deep breath and skimmed it all the way to the end. And on a positive note, the rethorics are toned down. Turns one, you can no longer just flip a switch and get SOAP to become REST:

At the same time, you need to understand that HTTP binding doesn’t enable you to implement a full REST style system. This is often debated by a lot of people, and it all depends on how much you believe in what REST can deliver.

Progress. One IBM DeveloperWorks article at a time.

I understand the mechanics, but the concept … Forget what I just said. Check out this little gem from DeveloperWorks.

Wondering what all the cools kids are doing? (hint: it goes by the street name “JSON”) Feeling left out? Hanging on to your XML mixed content? Can’t let go of attributes? Well, behold the wonder! The 21st Century Amazing Invention the will rock your world! The Square Bracket!

Scroll down to listing 10 for a simple, elegant XHTML table done right. Now tell me you would prefer the square bracketed version from listing 11. If you’re feeling extra brave today, check out listing 17. Left me speechless.

There’s a real world out there. While we’re debating the relative merits of URI vs WS-EndpointReference and whether brackets should be angular or square, keep in mind. The real world is a scary place. From a public mailing list I will not mention:

is it possible to deploy webservice on WEBSERVER rather than application
server?? or is it possible to deploy webservices on http web server… ???

But it is changing. At least according to InfoWorld, reciting a recent Evans Data report:

A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined 12 percent from a year ago.

The targeting of Linux by developers increased by 34 percent to 11.8 percent. It had been 8.8 a year ago, according to the survey. Linux targeting is expected to reach 16 percent over the next year.

Courtesy note. I asked so you don’t have to. The outside tables are for patrons, so yes, you can sit there. Your latte will keep warm for five minutes. But I do recommend a lid. Your friend can sit with you. We don’t care if you talk loudly. But really, you don’t need to wave that iPhone in the air the entire conversation.