Plasma::Service API review

[Alex Merry]

On Friday 16 May 2008 22:46:15 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > A "profile" or a "username" are "destinations"? Sounds odd to me. In
> > particular the "username" as destination example for a web service
> > doesn't feel natural at all to me (you'd definitely expect a url for this
> > one).
>
> think of twitter. the destination is the username.
> think of networking. one sets up profiles for commonly used settings.


> > I think that the vocabulary might need to be reevaluated. To me service
> > would relate to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and in such a case a
> > service is a collection of operations. Of course the same service can be
> > running at several places, and then you identify which one you're calling
> > using an address.
>
> so instead of "destination" you find "address" more natural?

How about "target"?

Alex



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