Re: [cgiapp] REST::Application

["Charles P. Frank" <suppressed>]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:53 -0400, Cees Hek wrote:
> Does anyone know what REST::Application [1] is all about?  I just saw
> it appear on CPAN today...  It claims to be influenced by
> CGI::Application.  I don't know what REST stands for or what a RESTful
> webapp is, so I am a little bit lost on this one.

I haven't read the docs for the module (though I will when I get more
time this weekend).  REST is REpresentational State Transfer.  I know
that one of our developers was big on REST, as a means of machine to
machine connection.  The transparency of GET(select), PUT(insert),
POST(update), DELETE(delete) was something he tried to implement with
large data stores for one of our clients.  We could spider our data
stores via meaningful urls to resources, and update from large XML data
stores to updated mysql databases.  This, is of course, an example using
XML and databases, over http, but REST isn't tied to any particular
technology.  http://www.w3.org has some info, here is a slide
presentation that describes REST.


http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/techplen-http/Overview.html

CPF

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cees
> 
> [1] http://search.cpan.org/~moconnor/REST-Application-0.01/Application.pm
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