05 March 2008 15:00
InfoQ: Hypermedia in RESTful applications
by nhoizey
Flickr's current approach of requiring that clients possess Flickr-specific knowledge in order to progress from one application state to another, is simply another way of saying that they have a proprietary application model. Not only is it proprietary th
05 March 2008 11:00
REST vs. SOAP at Amazon
by nhoizey
Amazon has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services, and 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corporate hype over the SOAP stack, this is pretty compelling evidence that developers like the simpler REST approach.
O'Reilly Network -- Stewart Butterfield on Flickr
by nhoizey & 1 other
I think we had one person inquire about using the SOAP version of the API. I don't know if any apps were actually built. There is at least one application built on XML-RPC. But all the others--I don't even know how many there are--are built on the REST AP
05 March 2008 10:00
Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs
by nhoizey & 2 others
Microsoft is making a large investment in unifying our developer platform protocols for services on the open, standards-based Atom format (RFC 4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023)
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