Comments on: Internet Computing Call for Special Issue Proposals

By: steve

steve — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:44:12 +0000

Mohan: yes, someone could definitely propose a special issue on developing REST-based systems.

By: Mohan Radhakrishnan

Mohan Radhakrishnan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:39:53 +0000

I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time. So I would like to see an article about how to go about designing a REST-based system. This article could focus on some of the following issues that a non-expert like me found interesting.

1. A REST-based system is not necessarily browser-based. (Correct me if I am wrong )
2. Roy Fielding’s work on the java content management spec. is based on principles underlying REST. How do you design services based on those principles ?
3. How do you approach the design of a SOA-based system using REST principles ?

Thanks,
Mohan

By: steve

steve — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:04:47 +0000

Jacques: yes, all those are great ideas too. I look forward to seeing proposals on all these topics.

By: jacques

jacques — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:46:22 +0000

I would like to add some further suggestions, too:

1. The use of functional model programming paradigms in the distributed computing (google’s map-reduce, doug lea’s fork-join, etc);

2. A review of REST best practices when designing distributed systems.

3. Werner Vogels text about eventual consistency (CAP) and its practical uses.

4. What is up to date when it comes to language support in distributed systems programming (service definition languages, etc).

Best regards,
Jacques

By: steve

steve — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:44:35 +0000

Tony: absolutely! All the topics you mention sound excellent.