On 04.03.2007, at 20:29, Matthew Graham wrote:
>> Again in this case where the 'resource' includes the 'service
>> parameters' what useful operations can you do, and if you perform
>> those operations on the resource how do you affect others? The
>> stateful thing here is really your invocation of a particular
>> service, and whether it is ready to give you back an answer - this
>> is what the UWS model is all about, not trying to conceptualize
>> the sky as a resource.
> Exactly and we are going to have to reiterate and reemphasize a lot > to colleagues precisely what this discussion is about: REST instead > of SOAP for *web* services and not SIAP or similar services.
But actually the problem lies precisely with S*AP services - these are the ones that really would benefit from a UWS/CEA model, they need the asynchrony. Received on 2007-03-05Z09:42:50