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InfoQ Article: Mark Baker on "The Lost Art of Separating Concerns"

In a short article, well-known REST proponent Mark Baker claims the default, Web services-based approach to SOA development fails to properly separate concerns, and describes how the more generic interface used in Web architecture leads to an improvement.

Mark starts with a hypothetical getRealtimeStockquote() operation and describes the benefits in transforming it, first to a more general getStockquote() and finally into a get(). In his opinion, this principle is essential for achieving the goal of interface/implementation separation.

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