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REST ain’t a protocol

December 29th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

From the announcement of XINS Open-Source Web Services Framework 2.2:
“It supports protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML-RPC…”
and then from the framework’s website:
“XINS is an open-source Web Services framework supporting HTTP protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML-RPC…”.
It’s also funny to see REST among other technologies on their diagram. But what bothers me the most is that if you open their DOAP file it says in the description REST-style RPC technology that competes with both SOAP and XML-RPC” ;) (bold is mine).

Although I might understand the intention of the authors, that is still incorrect. REST ain’t a protocol!

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