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2006-08-08

WOA vs ROA

Sam Ruby - WOA vs ROA:

"There is a term that you won’t see in the body of Dion’s post. Or in the body of Alex’s. Or in the Wikipedia article on SOA.

That term is “hypertext link”. Or even the term “link”.

[...] The link is the glue that holds the web together. It is what differentiates the web from protocols like ftp that merely serve as access methods for documents.

The very notion of a link has become practically inexpressible and virtually unthinkable in the vernacular of SOA."