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["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

REST: +1

/mrg

On Sep 5, 2007, at 13:36, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:

> > 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"