Grouper Developers Forum

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

> A2  Web services interfaces for query, management Likewise declared out 
> of scope a while back, this is probably the second most requested 
> capability missing from the toolkit. What subset of the API ought to be 
> exposed through each of what set of endpoints expressed in which web 
> services idiom, and how should requests to & responses from those 
> endpoints be structured?

Just to note that there has been a grassroots activity at UW:

  http://webservices.washington.edu/

which has been working on SOA/WS access to some institutional data 
sources.  It has been focused on RESTful interfaces, and I've been 
impressed by the enthusiastic participation from departmental developers. 
There are other things going on using SOAP of course, but I am becoming 
persuaded that for things with broad constituency, and I think this 
definitely includes distributed group management, that REST will be the 
way to go.  We may do some work on RESTful group management operations, 
don't know yet.

As long as I'm here let me note that Apple has apparently added a "Web 
Services" interface to iTunes U, including group management stuff.  We 
might want to pitch in and buy them a copy of the O'Reilly "RESTful Web 
Services" book, though ...

 - RL "Bob"