> A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia.
This language always bothered me, 'client' in this case surely means a advanced general intelligence, or 'human', who can futz around with the URIs to try and get what they need. Maybe that's better than CORBA, but it's not the Universal Translator of interfaces by a long shot.
This language always bothered me, 'client' in this case surely means a advanced general intelligence, or 'human', who can futz around with the URIs to try and get what they need. Maybe that's better than CORBA, but it's not the Universal Translator of interfaces by a long shot.