REST - Why was this not so obvious earlier ?
I have been digging around the web to learn more about the new messiah "REST". It seems like the perfectly normal way for transfers over distributed hypermedia systems - you have resources (or nouns) and methods (or verbs) that operate upon the resources. Why was this not the most obvious way of doing transfers before ? Maybe I don't understand certain intricacies of REST and the proper differences between SOAP and REST.
REST - Why was this not so obvious earlier ?
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I have been digging around the web to learn more about the new messiah "REST". It seems like the perfectly normal way for transfers over distributed hypermedia systems - you have resources (or nouns) and methods (or verbs) that operate upon the resources. Why was this not the most obvious way of doing transfers before ? Maybe I don't understand certain intricacies of REST and the proper differences between SOAP and REST.