[kenjackson]

Exactly. REST is interesting, but understand why its interesting. If you're doing it because its a popular buzzword, that's just cargo cult.

It's good to know about REST so you can use it where it makes sense. But at the end of the day, doing what is right for your app trumps following any given methodology.

[icebraining]

But then it's important to document when you're breaking the constraints. Nowadays it's impossible to know if a web service is actually following REST or not because everything remotely similar gets the same label.