RPC vs. REST in two sentences
In a recent posting in rest-discuss Roy Fielding
answered (probably for the zillionth time) the Question:
On May 10, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Ittay Dror wrote: > i'm having a hard time understanding your explanation. can you > please post two examples, one "RPC plus streaming", the other true > REST? RPC is remote procedure call. One of the things that typical RPC mechanisms lack is the ability to describe responses (or even parameters) as a stream of data as opposed to a small data type. HTTP has no problem doing that even when it is used in an RPC way. [...]
I offer a description of the main diffence in two short sentences:
In RPC style URIs name questions. In REST style URIs name answers.You can insert some
mainlysomewhere and point out edge cases, but it still remains the basic difference.