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“Critics Say Web Services Need a REST”

Jim, amongst others, was interviewed on the REST vs WS debate (“Critics Say Web Services Need a REST”). Jim pushed the MEST ideas although not by name (btw… thanks for the reference mate 🙂 and I was glad to read Mark Baker’s comments suggesting that there may be something in what we are proposing, as he’s done in a couple of recent posts.

This is good news for our ideas. Now, all we need is to formally write about MEST.

(Need more hours in a day! More hours, more hours!)

PS: I didn’t realise Jim was a lecturer at our University. Last time I checked he was employed by the WS-GAF project as a research associate :-)) Oh these journalists; how do they manage to get everything wrong? 🙂

2 responses to ““Critics Say Web Services Need a REST””

  1. Greg Goth
    I must take exception to your statement about “these journalists who get everything wrong.” I wrote the article; I taped the interview with Jim. Here’s a direct transcription of the portion in which I asked him his title: G: Whats your…Professor down there? Professor at U of Newcastle? J: No, thanks for the upgrade, no, I’m, I’m a plain old lecturer. I dont have a chair just yet, except for the one in my office, and I’m not sure I can call that a professorial chair just yet. So, you see, you are the one who has “managed to get everything wrong.” Seeing as your comment hinting that I am careless and sloppy can be read by everyone involved in the discussion, let alone casual readers on the topic, I’d say you owe me an apology. I am not jesting. Managing to get things right is what I need to try to do as close to 100% of the time as possible; otherwise, my editors and sources wion’t trust me to do a balanced job on some of the issues I cover, and will not be as forthcoming as the discussion deserves…and in this case, I merely sent along the informaton told to me. By saying I mislabeled Jim is to plant seeds of doubt about the rest of the article, and by extension, anything I write about. I make mistakes, indeed I do. But not many. And not this time. Think twice before opening your yap next time…make sure you aren’t going to be the one embarrassed.
  2. Savas Parastatidis
    Hey Greg, indeed I owe you an apology but you took my comment as a criticism of your entire article which was definitely not the case. Also, my comments were not a personal attack to you or your writings so there is no need for hostility. I just didn’t think that Jim would have said he was a lecturer but I was wrong. Anyway… My apologies again and since I do recognise when I am wrong, I will do so as a separate post too.