... Perhaps you and/or Jan can provide a more descriptive refutation of the issue? I'm sorry that I can't see the difference. I'm trying to see the issues....
... I am probably doing a bad job of stimulating healthy counter examples to my assertion that RMI "invoke" is a uniform API. My arguments about "invoke" are ...
Hi Eric, ... Uniform *operations* aren't new, I agree. Most messaging systems use them, in particular an operation, normally implicit (i.e. not on the wire),...
This discussion is a lot of fun, good stuff. Reminds me of the "Pizza Shop Blueprint" antipatterns piece I wrote here: http://www.soacenter.com/?p=33...
... The recipients method, port, or whatever we call it is part of the message, at least in the context of this discussion (IMO). [...] ... Yes, Mark made that...
... But the web also works because browsers don't generally pay attention to mime-types preferring to sniff content (they do this because the majority of web...
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IMO, there's a big difference between an interface with just one generic operation and the uniform interface of REST - and it's not just "one" vs. "four" (or...
Gregg, "invoke" is not a uniform interface because it doesn't work unless you also supply a method name to invoke. And in RMI, the method names are not ...
Hi Miko, Since you've posted about this, I guess I'll ask... ;-) When (if ever) do you expect to have multi-vendor content on your new Website? Eric ... From:...
... The method name, including the associated object id, is the resource, not the operation. Invoke is the operation. ... I think about it in terms of the...
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Some of you new to SOA have probably wondered what exactly it was about, what the fuss was about, and what were the benefits. Joe here quotes a couple of...
Anne, I can see the elegance of some designs using REST (e.g. APP), but I'm a bit confused by the insistence that the only semantics on offer are GET, PUT,...
... So this means that it a) isn't in XML b) that both sides have a shared ontology c) is heavily documented It does seem a trifle "optimistic" to think that...
... You've though about the verbs, but have you considered the nouns in your scenario? In the real world you might have a sequence of verbs "lift", "turn", ...
... You do not _delete_ an order, you _cancel_ it. There is a big difference between the two. Companies want to know what orders have been cancelled so they...
... This is an interesting point because we've had lots of discussion here about HTTP being an "application protocol". This overloading of "delete" to mean ...
Yes ... semantics are out-of-band. I think that's been Steve's point. That's why I disagree with Jan's assertion that "self-described" requires standard...
Great examples of cost-effective applications, and I've heard Sandy recite them before, but I'd like to point out that both applications could also be ...
Here is an interesting example of an alleged (?) SOA-based system: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/silent-commerce/message/101 Gervas ... anonymous) ... Of...
Ann wrote: "IBM has created a central notification system that ensures that lots of applications that contain redundant capabilities are notified of a...
... Michael, I guess you have read the article from ZapThink about "Competitive SOA", http://www.zapthink.com/report.html?id=ZAPFLASH-2007220, which, frankly ...