{"id":1000305,"date":"2006-12-03T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2006\/12\/03\/rest-pessimists\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T12:55:11","slug":"rest-pessimists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/12\/03\/rest-pessimists\/","title":{"rendered":"REST Pessimists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingbarque.com\/nonintersecting\/2006\/11\/29\/they-cant-hear-you\/\">Several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/service-architecture.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/want-to-be-cool-learn-rest-want-career.html\">people<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kstaken.com\/archives\/104_ws-vs-rest-xml-schema-vs-relax-ng-quit-complaining-they-cant-hear-you.html\">have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/service-architecture.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/soap-v-rest-more-pointless-than-vi-v.html\">started<\/a> to push back on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.elharo.com\/web\/rest-vs-soap-a-parable\/\">REST vs. WS-*<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.elharo.com\/xml\/relax-wins\/\">RELAX vs. W3C XSD<\/a> and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you&#8217;re right they say; but it doesn&#8217;t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that&#8217;s all the CIO hears; so that&#8217;s all that matters. Sure, you can get the job done better\/faster\/cheaper with Rails\/REST\/RELAX, but you won&#8217;t. Well, to these pessimists I have a one-word response:<\/p>\n<p>CORBA<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how nicely you wrap a dead fish. Sooner or later it starts to stink, and gets tossed in the garbage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have started to push back on the REST vs. WS-* and RELAX vs. W3C XSD and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you&#8217;re right they say; but it doesn&#8217;t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that&#8217;s all the CIO hears; so that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}