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Personally I found the ORA REST book did a good job of explaining some of the key problems that using HTTP RESTfully solves and the benefits that brings. I thi
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Personally I found the ORA REST book did a good job of explaining some of the key problems that using HTTP RESTfully solves and the benefits that brings.
I think one of the key points of the book was that Flickr and Delicious could do better with their implementations of a REST API. Just because something is successful doesn't make it optimal.
I absolutely that adhering to something for it's own sake is stupid and dogmatic, I think that suggesting improvements to an implementation based on known benefits of an architecture is perfectly valid.
- gruseom 18y agoBut their suggestions had nothing to do with making Flickr and Delicious better - only more conformant to REST. Which was just my point: you have to assume that "REST = good" in order to call that "better". Personally, I'd rather learn about web app design by studying Flickr, Delicious, and Gmail than by making an assumption like that and then limiting my thinking to what it allows. Another amusing thing about that book is how hard they had to struggle to find real-world examples that passed their REST purity test. If I recall correctly, that's the only reason why Flickr and Delicious even came up.
- marijn 18y agoWhich book are you referring to? Googling brought me right back to this very comment.
- gruseom 18y agoI'm talking about http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/. If anyone here wants a copy, email me. I've still got mine lying around.