REST Quotes

“The approach has a metamodel based on UML. Thus, a major advantage of the UWE metamodel is related to the fact that it remains compatible to the MOF (Meta-Object Facility) meta-metamodel, used for the definition of UML, which was defined by the OMG and therefore follows the approach of Model Driven Architecture (MDA [126].”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“Instead of using dynamic contracts that are retrieved and analyzed at runtime, which would, just as on the human Web, allow clients to adapt to ad-hoc changes, developers chose to use static contracts. All the knowledge about the API a server exposes is typically directly embedded into the clients. This leads to tightly coupled systems which impede the independent evolution of its components. When”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“we will demonstrate how a short list of concrete design guidelines and a small vocabulary can be used to create APIs that expose enough information to be usable by a completely generic API browser. Based on a simple prototype, we will show how easily such a, at first sight, disruptive approach can be integrated in current Web frameworks and how it can be used to build interoperable and evolvable APIs in considerably less time.”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“What is needed at this time is an increased focus on coding clients that can support ARM evaluation and a parallel increase of new ARM-style implementations and message designs.”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“Instead of working to narrow the scope and meaning—to remove the ambiguity—of network communications; instead of working to create static interfaces that are tied to a specific place and time, maybe there is a way to mimic pattern languages on the network itself; to improve shared understanding by dealing in general concepts communicated through the use of mutually understood affordances in ways that allow for local interpretation and embellishment without the loss of basic meaning.”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“Another view of human communication was put forward by Alfred Korzybski in his 1933 tome “Science and Sanity.” [130] Here, Korzybski outlines his view that human knowledge is limited not only by our ability to perceive the world but also the language we use to describe what we perceive. For him, our perception is always incomplete; always missing details and filtered by our current beliefs. It was Korzybski who coined the phrase: “The map is not the territory.” Korzybski acknowledged that this ability”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications

“In this light, continuing to focus efforts on programming each device natively, encoding all the domain knowledge on these devices, may not be the best way to make use of software developers’ (and architects’) energies. Instead it may make more sense to leverage the network itself; to actually program the network instead of the connected devices.”
― Cesare Pautasso, REST: Advanced Research Topics and Practical Applications