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Re:REST is over by Craiggybear on Friday February 24, 2012 @11:49AM (#3629797)
Hyper anything sounds terribly retro to me, circa 1992.

But I agree: it is an uninformative term for anything which merely establishes a connection and sends/receives data as opposed to specifically delivering content.

REST is just fine as it is. It is a well-understood term for what it does. Why reinvent the wheel and stick a new label on it every five minutes?

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Re:REST is over by icebraining on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:05PM (#3629870)
REST is well understood? The percentage of self-described REST APIs that actually respect its constraints is almost a rounding error.
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Re:REST is over by Craiggybear on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:16PM (#3629930)
Well, I'd probably agree with that. There are some truly bizarro API implementations.
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