Subject:	it won't be simpler
	Date:	2007-02-20 08:12:56
	From:	agoubard
REST won't be simpler for the following reasons: * REST is used to access/manage resources. What is the resource for "int multiply(int a, int b)"? * You resources are accessed/managed through the different HTTP methods. So except for HTTP GET, you will have difficulties to use put,post,delete. * There isn't any good specification of REST, you have the document of Roy Fielding and Wikipedia * I haven't seen any REST Web Services so far, all I see are resources accessible using HTTP GET * I'm not the only one having this opinion as I talked recently with another person implementing REST for his Web Services framework (like I do) and we shared the same opinion. * I don't even mention the caching feature described in Wikipedia. The simpler way is to have Web Services accessible using HTTP GET or POST as done in Axis 2 or XINS.