No, REST is good, but you should either use it or not. If you're not going to use it, then you really ought to be sending and receiving data to a specific endpo

No, REST is good, but you should either use it or not. If you're not going to use it, then you really ought to be sending and receiving data to a specific endpoint. And once you're doing that, it actually starts to be questionable whether you need or want HTTP at all (ignoring the hellworld of middleboxes we live in).