Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 25853 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2008 12:41:30 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Nov 2008 12:41:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 22011 invoked by uid 500); 14 Nov 2008 12:41:36 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 21971 invoked by uid 500); 14 Nov 2008 12:41:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact couchdb-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 21959 invoked by uid 99); 14 Nov 2008 12:41:36 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:41:36 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.68.94.123] (HELO tumbolia.org) (80.68.94.123) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:40:13 +0000 Received: from nslater by tumbolia.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L0xyq-0007Ze-3A for couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:40:56 +0000 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:40:56 +0000 From: Noah Slater To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Document Updates Message-ID: <20081114124055.GE24001@tumbolia.org> Mail-Followup-To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org References: <20081113220313.GG15315@tumbolia.org> <20081113233718.GI15315@tumbolia.org> <20081114040241.GJ15315@tumbolia.org> <20081114115348.GA24001@tumbolia.org> <20081114123545.GD24001@tumbolia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081114123545.GD24001@tumbolia.org> X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:35:45PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > Sure, there are some areas, such as hypertext as the engine of application > state, that CouchDB does not use, but looking back at Roy's original doctoral > thesis, REST seems to be predominantly about architecture constraints, of > which this was not one of them. CouchDB embraces all of the mentioned > constraints in some way or another; namely client/server, statelessness, > cacheability, uniform interfaces, and layered systems. Careless wording on my part, hypertext is clearly an architectural constraint. However, the weight placed on it within his thesis does not seem to be as great as some of the other core constraints. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater