MS is firing on all cylinders to copy emulate Ruby on Rails’ developer friendly features. Among the deluge of new stuff released upon developers over the past few months I hadn’t yet realized there was a MS project named Astoria.
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The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens in terms of HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats such as XML and JSON.
Yes, not on the site but in the pertinent documents they admit it’s RESTful, overcoming the fear of having theirs mouths washed with SOAP.
This puts REST firmly into the essential learning category for web developers together with JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Here’s a good introduction into REST. SubSonic, the hottest “catching up with Rails” project, will have it built in real soon now.
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