... Can't ... hold ... back ... any longer ... must ... speak ... This commentary is not provided from a position of ignorance. I was previously the Lead...
... Now I like Google, top blokes. But I think of heavyweight in my area as people like Walmart, GE, GM, Toyota, US DoD. The non-shiny parts of the Fortune...
... OTA - http://www.opentravel.org/Resources/Uploads/PDF/OTA_Architecture_Review.pdf SWIFT - http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=56873 (2004 report that ...
We have had some interesting approaches to the question of whether REST has finally managed to kick SOAP/WS* into the grave which reflect your diverse...
Yup you can do OTA as POX (or even FTP), I was just pointing out that OTA do have defined SOAP pieces and this is the default that I've seen people working on....
Steve, The reason why I engaged with this thread is that in the post I originally replied to, someone unfamiliar with travel might walk away with the...
... Just have to say that, from a biological standpoint, eating shit is great for flies! What you really mean is that we shouldn't eat shit, because, frankly,...
... Alex, what you choose to eat in the privacy of your own home is your personal affair, provided of course that it conforms with the laws of the land. Gervas...
"If our launch customer had, instead, chosen to use the RESTful services, they would have had a much richer experience (especially around caching and ...
Harm, Nobody cares about the number of requests that address reservations - there is money paid, so all is well. The caching story revolves around search and...
Hi ... I found parts of this talk difficult to follow. In particular, talking about the "stateless constraint" of REST, Steve has on the slide: "Resources hold...
... Hell yes. My point was that its used. Calling the travel industry heterogeneous is generous. This is after all an industry where people are still screen...
... Are you saying a PNR call to a GDS is completely free? Most people I know do caching on reservations and bookings so they don't have to pull it from the...
Now I don't understand REST but.... If you want to create an order then you do things like add order lines, add number of items etc. This is the "application"...
... Yes. Think of the "application" state as the state of the agent. For example, your web browser is an agent. Its application state are the bookmarks, HTML...
Stu, would you say that REST is best used in conjuction with web- based applications? Your examples make sense in that context, with potential state...
... Not at all, REST has got no connections with the presentation "layer" at all. Many perhaps think there is a connection because it's "web technology" which...
As we enter into the next maturity level in SOA, it is imperative that we come up with a formal definition and mechanism to formulate a SOA balanced scorecard...
... presentation "layer" ... browsers ... about ... It just seems that most quick explanations I see, Stu's included, emphasize the links within the result....
... What's a link? There's those links we have in a browser as text in blue with underlines, and you click it to go wherever. But there's more to links that...
<<There are seven words every IT professional dreads hearing during the summer: "Sorry to bother you on vacation but …" The idea of creating a pre-vacation...
... [snip] ... Is it easy? I mean if I know up-front that product ref is there and customer ref and that the structure is order and single amounts rather than...
Is Seeley running out of real stories? ;-) -Rob ... professionals ... Marble, ... their ... be ... said. "Is ... for ... long ... could ... from ... people ......