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Not long ago someone blogged: Want to be cool? Learn REST. Want a career? Learn WS-*.

I know this to be untrue: In my entire life I’ve never been one of the cool kids, and I still don’t have a Facebook account, but I did learn REST. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

I’m not dumb enough to make a statement as outrageous as this:

Everyone will have to use WS-* commercially if they want to interact with systems from the major software vendors.

I’m not saying its right, just that its reality.

But I will say that the REST drumbeat seems to be reverberating to the point where if you’re not seriously considering REST as a fundamental element of your web services strategy, you’re probably going to regret it.

I’m not sure what has triggered this. Perhaps it was the release of Sam Ruby’s new book on RESTful Web Services, which is getting rave reviews.

Or perhaps its just the recognition of the obvious: web services ought to look more like the web.

Something big is happening, I can feel it.

Turns out the Facebook Platform is indeed REST, so maybe I’m cooler than I think.

John Newton has a great post on the future of content management standards in the Enterprise. He’s identified a growing interest in REST interfaces for content management and that they should be considered for every information service.
I couldn’t agree more. Data services are the foundation of information services and REST is better suited [...]

We’re back from OSBC and I think it was a great conference. The program was excellent and I got to meet lots of people from all parts of the industry: suppliers, analysts, investors, and a surprising number of end users. I spent most of my time in the ‘What’s Next’ track where Larry [...]

We’ve been pretty busy the past few weeks putting the finishing touches on our software. Tomorrow (Tuesday), we’re going to announce the availability of our download. Come give it a try.
We’re going to the Open Source Business Conference where we will make it official.
There’s some other news as well. See for yourself [...]

We’re on the verge of releasing our code and we’ve spent a lot of time looking at other projects to see what works what doesn’t as far gaining widespread adoption and building a vibrant developer community. There were some obvious differences in the way some projects are managed: Some have paid contributors others do not. [...]