UWS as a REST protocol

[Paul Harrison]

On 04.03.2007, at 20:29, Matthew Graham wrote:

>> Again in this case where the 'resource' includes the 'service  
>> parameters' what useful operations can you do, and if you perform  
>> those operations on the resource how do you affect others? The  
>> stateful thing here is really your invocation of a particular  
>> service, and whether it is ready to give you back an answer - this  
>> is what the UWS model is all about, not trying to conceptualize  
>> the sky as a resource.
> Exactly and we are going to have to reiterate and reemphasize a lot  
> to colleagues precisely what this discussion is about: REST instead  
> of SOAP for *web* services and not SIAP or similar services.

But actually the problem lies precisely with S*AP services - these  
are the ones that really would benefit from a UWS/CEA model, they  
need the asynchrony.