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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by wanderr on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:38PM (#4456082)
That's a bit of a false dichotomy though. SOAP is a giant turd, but it's not the only alternative out there. JSON-RPC is just as easy to understand as REST, without all the pedantry.
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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by fusiongyro on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:41PM (#4456109)
One advantage of REST, I don't know if it's especially meaningful in this context, is that RPC mechanisms encourage people to think of remote calls as local, but remote calls have a lot more failure modes than local ones do. REST keeps you aware that you're dealing with remote resources the whole time.
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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by davedx on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:10PM (#4456230)
Most of us don't worry about pedantry too much. We try to stick to best practices - just like with the rest of development we do - and get on with it.
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Re:REST – Epic Semantic Fail by sabat on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:04PM (#4456473)
JSON-RPC is just as easy to understand as REST, without all the pedantry.

I hadn't heard of that, but it sounds exciting, partly because it's so self-explanatory.

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