"It would be a different style of interaction. Generally speaking, REST is designed to avoid tying a server's connection-level resources to a single client using an opaque protocol that is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack. Go figure."
I think Websockets relaxes the client-server constraint (and maybe some others). As long as developers understand the consequences, it should be fine I guess.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/1581...
"It would be a different style of interaction. Generally speaking, REST is designed to avoid tying a server's connection-level resources to a single client using an opaque protocol that is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack. Go figure."
I think Websockets relaxes the client-server constraint (and maybe some others). As long as developers understand the consequences, it should be fine I guess.