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I think you're right: a resource is the embodiment of a concept, as both are
understood by two or more parties.
If I wanted to exchange information about Orgone generators with Orson Bean,
it wouldn't matter if the concept was formally valid or not.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seairth Jacobs [mailto:seairth@seairth.com]
> I'm not sure that's true. Ultimately, all you can model is
> the interaction
> between client and server. In this case, that means URIs and
> Representations. The Resource seems to me just a convenience
> for the server
> implementer, since the client can't know any more about than
> what it knows
> of URIs and Representations. I have wondered at times if the use of
> Resource in REST discussions has been more a tool to illustrate the
> architecutral style than an actual concrete part of the equation...
>
> ---
> Seairth Jacobs
> seairth@seairth.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@datapower.com>
> To: "Joe English" <jenglish@flightlab.com>
> Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] many-to-many
>
>
> > >If we dispose of the inconvenient fiction
> > >of a "Resource", most of the metaphysical hooey
> > >surrounding URIs goes away.
> >
> > I'd like to watch you try, if only so I could watch the heads of
> > Fielding and the rest of the REST camp explode.
> > /r$
> >
> >
> >
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