I’m doing research for a short paper on RPC/SOAP vs REST and came across a great statement. Since I can’t figure out how to actually use it within my paper, I’m capturing it here.. ah, such fine research material…

…the Web Services visionaries imagine sending off a message that launches a cascade of asynchronously-queued long-lived transaction components being orchestrated through a constellation of distributed routers and value-adding agents. So far, this vision is way out there with the Semantic Web in terms of being a practical useful reality, and I’m fairly optimistic that both of them will deliver in their own time, and I’m pretty sure that neither is going to make it to first base without climbing in bed with the other, and furthermore I think that mixing baseball and sexual metaphors is just fine….

(from The SOAP/XML-RPC REST Saga, Chap. 51

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