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Roy Fielding's thesis ( Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures ) was not implemented/adopted immediately, was there any specific reason for this ? The thesis was submitted in 2000, however the REST architectural design became popular in the last 3/4 years. I may be wrong but that's why I like to know better. I understand that under SOA, SOAP was popular and well standardized before the REST era. Was this lapse in adoption a function of academic or industrial factors ?

Maybe the evaluation was insufficient or not convincing enough for real world deployments. What academic lessons can be drawn from this ?

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If someone claims that (s)he found something good, then that alone is not enough. Mistakes happen, even without mistakes correct conclusions given the evidence present can later proof to be incorrect. So a single publication alone is often not enough, it needs checking by others, replications, etc. before a conclusion is widely accepted. That takes time.

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  • I do agree with you. It will be nice to know why/how SOAP was standardized and adopted rather than REST despite the thesis from a then member of Apache Http project. Maybe we as academics can derive some lessons from this historical discourse. – SyCode Aug 26 '18 at 19:45
  • It is simple : “experience is like a toothbrush, you can’t use someone else’s “... – Solar Mike Aug 26 '18 at 21:03

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