We're not abstracting HTTP away, we're just looking at the whole thing differently. In a way our code is RESTful and considers HTTP a way to implement REST. X

We're not abstracting HTTP away, we're just looking at the whole thing differently. In a way our code is RESTful and considers HTTP a way to implement REST. XMLRPC and other things throw all of HTTP over board with the exception of the entity body which removes all the advantages and reasons to use HTTP. Our stuff gives us an unified API and it's fully embracing HTTP.