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RE: [xml-dev] Did Documents Win? No. Objects Just Couldn't GetTheir A

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To: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@bearingpoint.com>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Did Documents Win? No. Objects Just Couldn't GetTheir ActTogether.
From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:08:33 -0500
Cc: Jeffrey Winter <JeffreyWinter@crd.com>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>, Michael Champion <michael.champion@hotmail.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
In-reply-to: <1140736851.3562.21.camel@macross>

> But I think the hardest thing to understand about REST isn't the
> semantics of the operations per se, but how exactly to define what the
> resource is so that the operations make sense.

Yes, naming in distributed systems has long been recognized as a a very 
important, subtle, and hard problem.

I used to say REST is just federated naming, but nobody understood me.

        /r$

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