Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Hopefully, when blair returns from vacation he will tell us how to use 
ruby (or ruby on rails, or some other ruby-thing) to present a java API 
using three web services idioms simultaneously: REST, SOAP, and XML/RPC.

I'd sure like to sidestep debate on which idiom to use for group 
management, since I'm sure there are adherents of all three among 
potential adopters.

Tom

Michael R. Gettes wrote:
> 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"