On 2/14/07, Jerome Louvel <contact@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Elliotte,
>
> Let me look at this effort on a more constructively light. You forgot to
> mention that Marc Hadley is also the author of WADL which is the best
> RESTful description language available.

Which Roy and I have both pointed out (in effect) is an oxymoron...

> He may have been involved in
> other standardization efforts, but that doesn't mean he doesn't get REST
> now: I know he does.

I like Marc a lot. We worked together at Sun, and he's just a very
pleasant fellow. But I think he misunderstands important aspects of
REST and the Web, so I have some concern there.

Anyhow, rather than be critical of this effort, I've decided to submit
my application to join the EG. Java definitely needs better APIs for
the Web.

I am concerned about the request (section 2) though; it goes on and on
about how existing APIs are too "low level" and require a lot of
knowledge of HTTP, which suggests to me that they're thinking of
hiding as much of HTTP as possible; an obvious "protocol independence"
bias there which will only lead to a crappy API.

Mark.
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