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I'm having trouble understanding how a wrapper for an arbitrary executable can be called "RESTful". Are there resources? Are there long-lived URIs?

In the end, doesn't the implementation of the executable partly determine whether it is really RESTful?

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Good question!

Certainly long-lived URI's. As for resources, I suppose conceptually there is. However you are correct that the given executable would determine a level for resources. So I guess the answer is YES. Support for RESTul is RESTful. Or not, depending upon your executable.

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