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Complex protocols will bite you. All these over engineered XML based protocols... That's why REST and JSON are great. Very simple and perfect for many web use

by castell 11y ago

Complex protocols will bite you. All these over engineered XML based protocols... That's why REST and JSON are great. Very simple and perfect for many web use cases.

dozzie 11y ago
REST is a shitty abstraction. If you happen to need to do anything with a resource, you suddenly need to reinvent RPC, except that error reporting will not be standarized and most probably will cram two different levels (transport and procedure execution) together.