On software architecture
I ran across a spout yesterday about the uniform interface in REST. Actually, it is more of an attack on resource-oriented architecture (ROA) with the usual sideswipes at REST. Like most criticisms of...
View ArticleInformation networks
One of the keys to understanding how the Web works is to understand how social networks impact the structure of information (and vice versa). Jon Kleinberg at Cornell University has organized a couple...
View ArticlePaper tigers and hidden dragons
One of the sessions that I attended at OSCON was “Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub” by Evan Henshaw-Plath and Kellan Elliott-McCrea. I think you can guess why that made me curious,...
View ArticleEconomies of scale
I need to address that teaser I included in my last post on paper tigers and hidden dragons: People need to understand that general-purpose PubSub is not a solution to scalability problems — it simply...
View ArticleNo REST in CMIS
About three weeks ago, a new “standard” for Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) was announced by EMC, IBM, and Microsoft with the usual fanfare of being the best thing since sliced...
View ArticleREST APIs must be hypertext-driven
I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on...
View ArticleSpecialization
As you may have noted, my last post seems to have hit a nerve in various communities, particularly with those who are convinced that REST means HTTP (because, well, that’s what they think it means) and...
View ArticleIt is okay to use POST
Tim Bray’s article on RESTful Casuistry revisits an odd meme in the REST debates that I’ve been meaning to discredit for a while. Some people think that REST suggests not to use POST for updates....
View ArticleWrangling mime.types
One of the chores that I do for the Apache HTTP server project, every three months or so, is to slog through the IANA media type registry to see what new media types have been registered and add them...
View ArticleICSE Most Influential Paper award
On the same day that Liam was born, I received news that one of my two papers published at the ICSE 2000 conference has been given the International Conference on Software Engineering’s Most...
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