Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

This is another example of someone using "Rest-like" to describe a HTTP-GET 
based RPC service.
In fact, the way they have the full featured one built with objects, and lite 
methods built with scalars is exactly what I have been doing (e.g. findGroups 
and findGroupsSimple).  Two differences that I see:

1. Their response can be XML or XHTML.  I didn't look too carefully, but it 
doesn't look like their XML in the response is in an xml schema, it is just 
returned as a string.  2. Perhaps this helps them have XML is slightly 
simpler than the Axis generated one.

I wonder if they are using Axis, it seems similar, though maybe they are 
customizing the WSDL to return with XML or XHTML... (Grouper's us currently 
100% generated)

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen M. Barrett 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:45 PM
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> Subject: [grouper-dev] An Example of Lite and full featured web
> services
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> In Fedora, there is a SOAP based full featured interface and a Lite
> interface which they describe as "REST-like".
>
> http://www.fedora.info/definitions/api/
>
> It is probably worth examining this quickly as a potential example of
> what a "Lite" service for Grouper might be like.
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