ReST vs SOA(P)
yawn ...
Instead ...
Facts and confused metaphors
for Understanding ReST

Early Web
• Human edited Files / Document Oriented
programatic output
• A patchy server opening up access to static
files
• Massive Upgrade to Human Knowlege,
Communication, and Transparency

Tech Progress
• CGI Scripts
• Screen scrapping clients
• Spiders, Robots, and Internet Duct-tape
• Dynamic HTML
• XHTML & XML formats
• CSS

Roy T. Fielding
Architectural Styles and the
Design of Network-based
Software Architectures
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
by Paul Downey