> This is a recent project.
OData officially started out in 2007. Roy Fielding's thesis was published in 2000.
So it was a contemporary of Protobufs, Cap’n Proto, and other frameworks. Facebook had Thrift, Amazon had Coral, and so on.
They appeared almost simultaneously, for the very same reason: REST by itself is too vague and unreliable.
So it was a contemporary of Protobufs, Cap’n Proto, and other frameworks. Facebook had Thrift, Amazon had Coral, and so on.
They appeared almost simultaneously, for the very same reason: REST by itself is too vague and unreliable.