The beauty of REST is that it's not defined. If one says it's no great, the response is "that's not REST". A nice trick. One would think that a integration pro

The beauty of REST is that it's not defined. If one says it's no great, the response is "that's not REST". A nice trick. One would think that a integration protocol standard would be defined by someone who's been doing integration for years, over many projects. And only then would those hard-won lessons would be codified in a standard. Nope, it was by a student for a thesis. Are students known for their expereince in integration? Also this guy was "heavily involved in the development of HTML and Uniform Resource Identifiers" [0]. Other questionable 'standards', IMO. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fielding