Last Friday I took a train down to Brighton to attend the d.construct conference hosted by my good friends at Clear:Left. While there I met a couple of familiar faces including Simon Willison and Ben Metcalfe who I had met previously when presenting at the BBC Backstage event earlier this year.
Normally I try to avoid the web 2.0 hype, I was there in Web 1.0 with Netscape and Sun so I get the strong feeling of history repeating itself here. However there are some substantive benefits coming from the way technology is being used in web 2.0 and for that reason I don.t think there will be a bubble as such, just an explosion in entrepreneurs and the delivery of a much richer and ( eventually) more intuitive and seamless world for the end user than ever before. Darwinian law will determine whose ideas or which companies survive.
I listened delighted to the presentations which talked about how web standards was enabling this richer user interface to be delivered and found myself thinking for the umpteenth time REST and AJAX really are a marriage made in heaven.
There is an elegance in the way the XMLHttpRequest object allows the use of REST there can be no surprise that most of the mashups that I know of use their respective REST API.s and even here at Amazon where we support both REST (Amazon REST) and SOAP (Amazon SOAP) we are finding there is a preference for the use of REST
When I was young a trip to the seaside meant two of my favourites fish and chips with the sea air, these days two more favourites can be added REST and AJAX
Hi Don,
nice Blog - Is Amazon paying you to run it ;-)?
I am still a bit sceptical regarding all the hype behind Web2.0.
"Mashups sites" (WEB2.0) = "affiliation sites" (WEB1.0)
REST (WEB2.0) = SOAP (WEB1.0).
AJAX = WEB1.0
From your point of you, what are the main benefits of using REST compared to SOAP?
Manu
Posted by: manu | November 15, 2005 at 10:16 AM