mnot’s Web log: Moving Beyond Methods in REST

REST is becoming the preferred mechanism for web services -- ral

mnot’s Web log: Moving Beyond Methods in REST: "Having complained before about the sad state of HTTP APIs, I’m somewhat happy to say that people seem to be getting it, producing more capable server-side and client-side tools for exposing the full range of the protocol; some frameworks are even starting to align object models with resource models, where HTTP methods map to method calls on things with identity. Good stuff.

However, something’s been bugging me for a long time about this. While there’s a nice internal logic to mapping HTTP methods to object methods, it doesn’t realise the power of having generic semantics."