for the sake of REST(ful)(ness): MVC -> RMR

By Marek Kopel

via http://groups.google.com/group/oai-ore/msg/c078b0b59ab06d03
then > http://iandavis.com/blog/2009/05/googles-rdfa-a-damp-squib (GGL supports RDFa – Hooray?  not really…)
then > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html (HTML 5 got it’s own microformats built in)
then > http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/12/the-web-is-rmr-not-mvc to

Introducing the RMR Web Architecture : Paul James

so Model-View-Controller must be replaced with Resource-Method-Representation to build RESTful Services and Apps…

the mapping is (more or less):

  • resource -> “a model with a bit of controller thrown in”
  • method -> MVC controller
  • representation -> “like a view in MVC”

- so why RMR?
- “It (MVC) just doesn’t model resources, the fundamental element of the Web is totally ignored”

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