Re: [cgiapp] REST::Application

[Christopher Hicks <suppressed>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Cees Hek wrote:
> I don't know what REST stands for or what a RESTful
> webapp is, so I am a little bit lost on this one.

Roy Thomas Fielding wrote a doctoral dissertation in 2000 which can be 
found online ( http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm 
) which defined REST.  REST is a set of principles for designing web apps 
that everyone should at least be familiar with.  The core idea was the 
URL's should make sense and could be used to perform queries or refer to 
unique items.  SOAP and cgiapp tend to have a single URL for everything 
and data sent via POST, so there's no URL that refers to object #123. 
The Catalyst framework encourages a RESTful style of application 
development among other things.

A decent short intro to REST can be found here:
	http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

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