Comments on: Microsoft’s REST Moves: Project “Astoria”

By: People Over Process » Your Data in the Cloud - URL-based computing, SimpleDB, Astoria, etc.

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:00:58 +0000

[...] must admit that, since last year when I went to a day-long review of Astoria, I haven’t followed it extremely closely, and I had to pass on the most recent Astoria review [...]

By: KaBlog / Actionatr, Web as Hash Pipe, and SaaS via Domain-Specific RESTful Hosting

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:53:43 +0000

[...] night, talented RedMonk Analyst, Michael Coté posted a write up covering Microsoft’s Astoria project including this [...]

By: Darrel Miller

Darrel Miller — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:03:35 +0000

The System.ServiceModel.Web that is included in the new Biztalk Services SDK is much closer to what I want to deal with. It seems to be a thin layer over the basic WFC plumbing that makes creating REST apps extremely simple.

By: cote

cote — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:06:39 +0000

Darrel Miller: agreed on the spaces, and I see what you’re saying about client side class generation. Did you find a place to input your concerns? The team seemed open when I talked with them.

By: Darrel Miller

Darrel Miller — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:56:19 +0000

Based on what I have learned since yesterday, so take it for what it is worth, I see two problems with the Astoria toolkit so far. The first is the use of spaces in the urls. Surely this is a major no-no. Sure we can replace the spaces with %20 but isn’t one of the intents to make the url somewhat legible.
There must be valid alternatives to the space!
The second part that I really don’t like is the inclusion of the client side proxy class generators. I think the toolkit should stop at delivering XML/json to the client. By generating classes on the client the toolkit is guiding developers back to the problems of shared types and remote objects. We don’t want to go back there.

By: Alex James

Alex James — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:54:17 +0000

…Cote’(Redmonk) walks through Astoria, and recommends making a Microsoft go whole hog after turning Astoria into an SaaS platform…

By: Alex James

Alex James — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:15:21 +0000

Nice post.

By: cote

cote — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:59:04 +0000

Christopher Mahan: not off topic at all. I really appreciate all your comments ;)

By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » RIA Stacks Comin’ ‘Atcha: Silverlight + Astoria, “Apollo” + LiveCycle Data Services, & Lighting the Dark Data

Tue, 01 May 2007 21:58:17 +0000

[...] to wheel at delivering their own RIA stacks at the moment. You can see that Silverlight and Astoria provide the front-end and back-end, respectively for an RIA approach to web-aware application [...]

By: All in a days work…

All in a days work… — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:09:42 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s REST Moves: Project “Astoria” Something like S3, but with semantics layered on top. An “entity” here is essentially what we’d call a “resource” in REST-land. URL-driven design: entities and interacting with them can be represented as URLs, several “operations” you can pa (tags: Astoria URI SaaS) [...]