Simon Willison’s Weblog

I've never heard anyone from the REST camp claim that building distributed systems was "easy". [...] The WS-* folks have historically been obsessed with making things easy, usually for an imaginary business analyst who is nowhere near as technically adept as they. The REST folks, on the other hand, seem much more interested in keeping the entire stack simple, and for everyone involved.

— Ryan Tomayko

# 13th January 2008, 11:34 pm / simplicity, rest, ws-star, web-services, ryan-tomayko

WS-* is North Korea and REST is South Korea. While REST will go on to become an economic powerhouse with steadily increasing standards of living for all its citizens, WS-* is doomed to sixty years of starvation, poverty, tyranny, and defections until it eventually collapses from its own fundamental inadequacies and is absorbed into the more sensible policies of its neighbor to the South.

— Elliotte Rusty Harold

# 7th July 2007, 9:40 am / rest, web-services, ws-star, korea, northkorea, southkorea, elliotte-rusty-harold

Now if WS-* technologies wants to own the niche of one proprietary platform technology talking to another in a homogeneous, closed environment...who cares? Good riddance I say. Just keep that shit off the Web.

— Dare Obasanjo

# 26th May 2007, 10:23 pm / ws-star, dare-obasanjo, web-services