[clintjhill]

I realize I implied "every table or model", and I would always argue for composition the way you describe it.

But ... there are good reasons to decompose and expose these things in your API. While maybe not for Public consumption but certainly for Private.

It's my opinion that the way REST beats SOAP in the enterprise is that in almost all cases it's much quicker to build decomposed services. And then likewise composition of said services is also much easier.