#soap

Timeplast’s TimeMass Soap Gen 5 is a breakthrough polymer-soap hybrid designed for FDM 3D printing. Made from water, calcium carbonate, in-house polymerized alcohols, olive oil, and naturally derived surfactants and emulsifiers (Coco-Glucoside and Glyceryl Stearate), this filament prints reliably and performs as a functional soap.

"But on a technical level, the point is not that "whatever!" is evil. The point is that if you chip a piece off "whatever!" and make it mean something specific, you can optimize around the constraints and reap the benefits."

"At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this architecture instead of fighting against it. There are millions of deployed clients, servers and intermediaries that support REST and it makes sense to be compatible with their expectations. "

"In a nutshell, that's what it's like for a SOAP/XML-RPC/WS-* programmer to discover REST."

"Anyone who is looking at integrating any sort of information service needs to at least consider REST."

"It may seem clear to some that parsing/generating JSON is more efficient than XML, but here’s some numbers that make things a little clearer."

"Another victory for REST over WS-*? Nope — Google doesn’t have a REST API to replace it."

This is the real unfortunate bit in the Google Search SOAP API going away: "The AJAX Search API is not a replacement for the SOAP API."

"As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead."

"Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out"

"I just learned that two weeks ago Google officially put the SOAP search API on end of life status."

"Dev: So it’s simple? SG: Simple as Sunday, my friend."

"So who really cares that SOAP is able to be bound to MQ or IIOP or SMTP, today?"

"When I joined Yahoo, one of the biggest adjustments I had to make was to their use of "Web Services"."

"Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."

"The Web, Plain-Old-XML, XMPP, and JSON are the way forward. And I think, deep down, everyone knows it."

"One fun remark: avoid using "SOAP, Corba or something insane" for your API - del.icio.us doesn't even use REST, Schachter said, but rather POX - plain old XML. His logic is that simple APIs are available to a larger subset of developers - why limit your

Funny flamebait.

"Go there. Stay there. Make it your happy place."