[Corrado]

Its an OK article but I was really expecting to see some alternatives. I'm truly interested in something that compete with REST but was left wanting by the article.

[rch]

I didn't think much of this article at all. I was expecting something possibly related to NetKernel or 9p, but was presented with... Thrift?

A more productive discussion might have started with Ext.Direct or Dojo RPC, but even those are just complementary channels, not alternatives.