I don't think he would think it is a bastardization. HTTP is 100% message passing. You have an object reference (url) and you pass a message to it with POST. St

I don't think he would think it is a bastardization. HTTP is 100% message passing. You have an object reference (url) and you pass a message to it with POST. State and behavior is encapsulated. In fact, one of the desireable properties of message passing is that it is easy to distribute across process and machine boundaries.