Mark says:
For everybody I know who came from a CORBA/DCOM-like distributed systems background, but now understands the Web, serious mental model rewiring occurred. If you haven't had that rewiring, you don't (yet) get the Web.
Hmm. I emailed Mark and told him that even though I have a CORBA background, I feel like I understand REST and the Web -- I wrote about it in my "Toward Integration" column two years ago now, in fact -- and I don't recall having undergone any major brain rewiring. I suppose I could be wrong, and that I don't really get it after all, but nobody beat me up for that article. Maybe nobody read it.
I also suggested to Mark that perhaps he should write a "REST test" that we CORBA/DCOM types can take so we can tell for sure. ;-)
Comments (3)
A test is a great idea. I'll try and get something up in the next few weeks.
Posted by Mark Baker | August 11, 2004 9:45 PM
Posted on August 11, 2004 21:45
I'm in the same boat here - I met Mark (hi mark!) a while ago during the initial XMLP meetings and asked him to explain the REST thing. It appeared to make eminent sense, without a noticeable rewiring :)
Posted by Oisin Hurley | August 12, 2004 10:55 AM
Posted on August 12, 2004 10:55
I, too, fail to understand the rewiring. Sure, REST is different from remote invocations, but remote invocations are different from local invocations, too.
It seems like less of a "Zen" moment than it does a "so?" moment...
Posted by Chris Cleeland | August 16, 2004 5:10 PM
Posted on August 16, 2004 17:10