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“Real illuminated REST”? The REST spec? It’s an architectural style defined by Roy Fielding’s thesis (who also was the editor of HTTP/1.1 RFC). It attempted

“Real illuminated REST”? The REST spec? It’s an architectural style defined by Roy Fielding’s thesis (who also was the editor of HTTP/1.1 RFC). It attempted to describe the Web’s architecture in neutral terms and how it was derived by combining previous styles. Some people took this and crafted a quasi religion out of it, but that’s partly because vendors in 2002 were all lined up trying to replace the web with a CORBA equivalent and then almost succeeded with SOAP/WS-*. People got strident to fight the dollars that were lined up. It’s easy to forget there was no powerful web/internet community with social media and blogging platforms in those days, it was all mailing lists and a couple of conferences vs. Marketing budgets, sales teams, and agenda-wielding engineers on standards bodies from Microsoft, IBM, BEA, Sun, HP, etc. All RESTful means is that something is attempting to conform to the style. There never was a spec.

coldtea 9y ago
>It’s an architectural style defined by Roy Fielding’s thesis (who also was the editor of HTTP/1.1 RFC). It attempted to describe the Web’s architecture in neutral terms and how it was derived by combining previous styles. It's application for what are essentially RPC needs is which I consider cargo cult.
jack9 9y ago
The thesis (https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm) with relevant section: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... The HTTP REST came from people mapping HTTP verbs to RESTful actions: http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/ http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/ (2006) to https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.ht... (2010)

coldtea 9y ago

>It’s an architectural style defined by Roy Fielding’s thesis (who also was the editor of HTTP/1.1 RFC). It attempted to describe the Web’s architecture in neutral terms and how it was derived by combining previous styles. It's application for what are essentially RPC needs is which I consider cargo cult.

jack9 9y ago

The thesis (https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm) with relevant section: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... The HTTP REST came from people mapping HTTP verbs to RESTful actions: http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/ http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/ (2006) to https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html https://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.ht... (2010)