RESTful Storage API ?

[Marvin S. Addison]

> As I clumsily mentioned on the last dev call, I have been wondering if
> providing a StorageServiceServlet with a RESTful API would be a good
> idea or not.

In my experience Web service APIs (RESTful or otherwise) are provided 
for tooling and integration. For example, the RESTful API could provide 
orthogonal functionality (complementing get/put/delete) for monitoring 
and management capabilities to query for storage metadata like storage 
capacity, item count per namespace, and expiration statistics. 
Alternatively, you could expose the core get/put/delete functionality in 
a Web service for clients that can't integrate naturally via supported 
protocols.

M