Like many geeks, I'm messing with Ruby on Rails and absorbing REST (which leads to not getting enough rest). I've been working on an ASP.Net project and tried to use a RESTful URL... bad juju. I got it to work under Mono by overriding the 404 error page, but that trick didn't work on Microsoft's server. The suggested solution is to write your own ISAPI filter. Uh-huh, I'll get right on that as soon as I get done knitting my own underwear. So much for that.
Today I came across an article about "Microsoft's Astoria REST Framework". Cool! I went to the official project page to check it out. What's really weird is that the page never actually uses the word REST. They're solving for it, they're implementing it, but they can't name it that? Bizarre. Just how are people supposed to find this thing?
Apparently Microsoft is switching from "embrace and extend" to something far weirder: "grudging adoption without admission"? Or "yeah, we'll do it, but we'll bury it in the FAQ." What's up with that?
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I don't think I understood a single word in that post.
I am definitely a nobody in the SOA tent.
:-(
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