.STRUM: Script-Tunneling REST Using Microformats
October 6, 2005 § Leave a comment
.STRUM was introduced at Thursday night’s Microformats BOF at Web
2.0.
2.0.
Tags: strum,
REST, microformats
.STRUM is a way to easily do XHTML-RPC via REST URIs
by
providing a trivial mapping between scripting languages, XOXO lists, and XHTML forms/anchors.
by
providing a trivial mapping between scripting languages, XOXO lists, and XHTML forms/anchors.
Benefits:
? No need to learn/understand network
programming
programming
? Trivial to adapt to any scripting
language
language
? Generally only one “right” way to encode
any given API
any given API
? Everything is human-readable
? Can use any standard browser as your REST
client
client
? Trivial to extent for additional
functionality
functionality
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