Comments on: How to GET a Cup of Coffee http://jayg.org/archives/2008/11/how-to-get-a-cup-of-coffee along the way toward the Web's full potential Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay G. http://jayg.org/archives/2008/11/how-to-get-a-cup-of-coffee/comment-page-1#comment-18910 Jay G. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:34:42 +0000 http://jayg.org/?p=163#comment-18910 Hi Colin, To follow links, even if you use a more general vocabulary like <next/>, you still need to distinguish among the different state transitions based on the semantics of each transition. And I think if there is a link in the representation, it means following the link is a valid state transition. If it's not valid, the representation shouldn't have the link in it. Hi Colin,

To follow links, even if you use a more general vocabulary like <next/>, you still need to distinguish among the different state transitions based on the semantics of each transition.

And I think if there is a link in the representation, it means following the link is a valid state transition. If it’s not valid, the representation shouldn’t have the link in it.

]]> By: Colin Jack http://jayg.org/archives/2008/11/how-to-get-a-cup-of-coffee/comment-page-1#comment-18791 Colin Jack Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:37:16 +0000 http://jayg.org/?p=163#comment-18791 Argh, that last post didn't work too well. I'll try again. Its great to see coherent workflow/process REST examples these days, really focusses the mind on solving real enterprise problems. "So, like the below, we can define a tag for a specific type of transition and its semantics can be defined by the tag itself" I see what you are saying but if there are a lot of state transitions involved won’t this get confusing to the client? They may understand what following the payment link means but they won’t know if it's a valid transition from the current state. Argh, that last post didn’t work too well. I’ll try again.

Its great to see coherent workflow/process REST examples these days, really focusses the mind on solving real enterprise problems.

“So, like the below, we can define a tag for a specific type of transition and its semantics can be defined by the tag itself”

I see what you are saying but if there are a lot of state transitions involved won’t this get confusing to the client?

They may understand what following the payment link means but they won’t know if it’s a valid transition from the current state.

]]> By: Colin Jack http://jayg.org/archives/2008/11/how-to-get-a-cup-of-coffee/comment-page-1#comment-18790 Colin Jack Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:35:09 +0000 http://jayg.org/?p=163#comment-18790 Its great to see coherent workflow/process REST examples these days, really focusses the mind on solving real enterprise problems. " latte shot 4.00 https://starbucks.example.com/payment/order/1234 " I see what you are saying but if there are a lot of state transitions involved won't this get confusing to the client? They may understand what following the payment link means but they won't know if its a valid transition from the current state. Its great to see coherent workflow/process REST examples these days, really focusses the mind on solving real enterprise problems.

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I see what you are saying but if there are a lot of state transitions involved won’t this get confusing to the client?

They may understand what following the payment link means but they won’t know if its a valid transition from the current state.

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