Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> ...
>
> Well, humans. The semantic web has a long evolution
> in front of it to beat the troublemakers and for that
> reason, frictionless business based on loosely coupled
> REST principles (based on URIs and GETs) won't work readily.
Business has friction because business should have a certain amount of
friction (e.g. accountants and auditors). Technology that adds
integration friction to the social friction is just overhead.
> It may be just as doable to lie to RPC, but it isn't
> as easy.
Why not?
IMHO, tricking computers is always easy, whether you use RPC, REST,
asynchronous messaging or whatever.
Paul Prescod