REST is over

While the title is link bait, the author has a point and I think it was best summed up by his use of the word RESTish. Absolute adherence to REST nouns in every application is similar to the old over normalizing in relational databases some times it does not fit the need. But that does not make the concept null and void it just means that it is a good rule of thumb, to be broken when the situation calls for a different rule.

Re: REST is over

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Post by peterwwillis » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC

Talk about bad branding. 'Hypermedia' sounds like something from a Gibson novel.

Re: REST is over

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Post by AznHisoka » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:13 PM UTC

No.. no.. no.. replace REST with SOAP, and I can go along with it.

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Post by evoltix » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:21 PM UTC

I think the term "hypermedia" will catch on just like REST did. People will begin to slap on the hypermedia label to their APIs whether or not they are true hypermedia APIs. Developing hypermedia APIs will be the new craze until some other revolutionary terminology is introduced to describe yet another way to correctly develop APIs.

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Post by bigtech » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:24 PM UTC

Looks more like REST 2.0.

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Post by absconditus » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #6

No.. no.. no.. replace REST with SOAP, and I can go along with it.

Why?

Re: REST is over

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Post by Tichy » Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 4:31 PM UTC

First time I heard the term "hypermedia".