Re: [xml-rpc] Re: Infoworld's CTO on Web Services

[Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>]

Mark, thanks for the respectful pushback, but that's not true.

Much of the XML-RPC spec is devoted to explaining how to serialize values,
structs and lists.

If you were going to marshall your calls in a different format, you'd still
have to define and explain how serialization works.

This has long been overlooked in the REST-is-Better discussions. (Although I
have pointed it out before.)

Dave


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From: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
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Subject: [xml-rpc] Re: Infoworld's CTO on Web Services


> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/10/010910opconnection.xml
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> > Nice. ;->
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> Heh.  Of course, if you buy into REST - the architecture of the Web - then
> the extra specifications necessary to implement Web Services total zero
lines.
> Can't do much better than that. 8-)
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> MB
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