Clemens Vasters teaches Indigo to do REST — part 1, part 2. Very, very cool stuff. One minor gripe I have is with this paragraph(s):
Now we assume, for a moment, that every customer in the system had its own HTTP service endpoint. If you have a million customers, you have a million endpoints, probably looking like this: http://www.example.com/myapp/customers/00212332. Each of these endpoints has an implementation of the shown interface, representing the resource. […] I think that you probably even could create a million endpoints, but of course such an application would be a complete pig. I haven’t tried and I don’t think you should.
That seems to somehow confuse problem and cause — http://www.example.com/myapp/customers/00212332 seems like a perfectly fine URI to me, and at least one company definitely has a few million of those … the fact that URIs map to a scarce resource (an endpoint) in existing stacks is the problem, not the URI.
The first assumption is that you’d have an endpoint listener for each URL. That’s what I am saying there, not more.