It looks like Joe Gregorio may have started something. Again.
I didn’t get more than a paragraph in before I scrolled down to the comments to see how quickly the subject of CouchDB came up. +1 for a standardized approach. I find that while CouchDB is stunningly effective most of the time, I think parts of the REST interface to it are occasionally bizarre and unexpected, especially the stuff related to calling views. A community driven approach to figuring out how to interact with that sort of data store would likely be very beneficial. Especially if it means multiple programs can all be easily integrated, or better yet, used interchangeably.
CouchDB, being part of the ASF, is a community driven project. If you feel you have something to contribute I encourage you to get involved and help shape it’s future.
Wow, that kicked off a great discussion around RESTful JSON with lots of comments and blog posts from Robert Sayre , Sam Ruby , Kris Zyp , and Robert Brewer . The one thing I’ve learned is that my blog comment system is not the place to have a long...
Noah, yeah, I’m very familiar with CouchDB. I was referring more to a community effort to standardize the kind of JSON REST APIs implemented by CouchDB.