27 days ago
nelson : 1,000 Web APIs - Nice directory of APIs. Surprised that as much as 22% of them are SOAP. Sorry!
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3 month ago
deusx : Request Weblog #Frog: REST Request - "But on a technical level, the point is not that "whatever!" is evil. The point is that if you chip a piece off "whatever!" and make it mean something specific, you can optimize around the constraints and reap the benefits."
Rod Begbie : REST Request - Another handy REST post. The API I'm building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it's still "RESTful" [via] #
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4 month ago
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz - "At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this archite
Simon Willison : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - Explaining REST to Damien Katz. I didn’t know that it was Mark Baker back in 2002 who first pointed out that SOAP was flawed because it ignored the architecture of the Web as defined by Roy Fielding’s Ph.D thesis.
Rod Begbie : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - A good "Wherefore REST?" post. [via] #
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10 month ago
nelson : The tired REST soldier - A bit crazy to personalize this so much, but glad Mark feels a victory
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15 month ago
nelson : Queen wins school lottery - two bars of soap and bath oil
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18 month ago
jcgregorio : Gloves - REST comment - Brilliant REST comment in the Gloves thread.
deusx : Recipe for creating your own Rails-like web framework (reddit.com) - "In a nutshell, that's what it's like for a SOAP/XML-RPC/WS-* programmer to discover REST."
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18 month ago
deusx : » REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services | Newton’s Theory | ZDNet.com - "Anyone who is looking at integrating any sort of information service needs to at least consider REST."
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19 month ago
nelson : Turning off an API? - How to cleanly shut down a service
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deusx : ryan kennedy’s blog » JSON-RPC vs. SOAP - "It may seem clear to some that parsing/generating JSON is more efficient than XML, but here’s some numbers that make things a little clearer."
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24 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? - did Google shut down its SOAP API for business reasons? (via 1060.org) [via]
deusx : Quoderat ? Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? - "Another victory for REST over WS-*? Nope — Google doesn’t have a REST API to replace it."
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24 month ago
deusx : O'Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API - This is the real unfortunate bit in the Google Search SOAP API going away: "The AJAX Search API is not a replacement for the SOAP API."
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24 month ago
deusx : Steve: Developing on the Edge - The end of SOAP - "Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out"
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24 month ago
deusx : Google SOAP Search API - "As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead."
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24 month ago
jcgregorio : GoogleSearchAPI (SOAP) Discontinued
deusx : Nelson's Weblog: tech / googleSearchAPI - "I just learned that two weeks ago Google officially put the SOAP search API on end of life status."
Jeremy Zawodny : Goodbye, Google SOAP search API - Goodbye, Google SOAP search API: "Man, you leave a company and no one remembers to tell you things."
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The S stands for Simple - The S stands for Simple: a funny-as-hell dialog about how SOAP is "simple"
jcgregorio : Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple
deusx : Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple - "Dev: So it’s simple? SG: Simple as Sunday, my friend."
Linkorama : The S stands for Simple - In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework, the SOAP side said, “Before all of the WS-* stuff, SOAP was actually simple. That’s what the ‘S’ stood for.â€
znarf : Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple #
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Yes it’s REST, yes it’s a service - Names deserve more credit than we give them. When you choose to put a value system behind a technology, choose wisely. Because anything higher up than lines of code has sort attention span, free association and sticks to catchy names like superglue.
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27 month ago
Linkorama : SocialText 2.0 - In addition to UI enhancements, SocialText 2.0 adds what the company is calling "Wiki Web Services", which are a full set of both SOAP and REST APIs to enable integration with other applications. I've signed up for the beta program and will be expanding m
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Ironick: What were we thinking?
deusx : Ironick: What were we thinking? - "So who really cares that SOAP is able to be bound to MQ or IIOP or SMTP, today?"
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Socialtext Bubble Bath Party - The SOAP API is one phase in multiple phases of work happening to make it easy to get stuff in and out of Socialtext; to play in the growing pool of tools that take stuff from here and there, fiddle around a bit and put it there and here. This is what mak
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31 month ago
deusx : mnot's Web log: Web Services are Dead, Long Live Web Services - "When I joined Yahoo, one of the biggest adjustments I had to make was to their use of "Web Services"."
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32 month ago
deusx : Dave Orchard's Blog: WS-SopranosDesperateHousewivesKwisatchHaderach - "in about two WS-years, the WS-KwisatchHadarach will be born! He will be known as WS-ReliableSecureConversationEventingNotificationMetadataExchangePolicy ResourceTransferTransactionEnumeration."
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33 month ago
deusx : Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3 / Amazon Web Services - "Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."
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34 month ago
deusx : franklinmint.fm: No, More Discussion Will Not Be Productive - "The Web, Plain-Old-XML, XMPP, and JSON are the way forward. And I think, deep down, everyone knows it."
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34 month ago
deusx : Tim Anderson's ITWriting - SOAP is insane, says Del.icio.us founder - "One fun remark: avoid using "SOAP, Corba or something insane" for your API - del.icio.us doesn't even use REST, Schachter said, but rather POX - plain old XML. His logic is that simple APIs are available to a larger subset of developers - why limit your
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