#ws

"In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate"

"The answer is that JSON works because most people don’t really need all that overhead, and because it’s often possible to do really complex things with really simple formats."

"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"

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

Funny flamebait.

"Having designed the URI space for our resources, we now need to consider how to make those URIs discoverable."

"XML-RPC represents a high-water mark in ease-of-use and flexibility."

"No matter how hard I try, I still think the WS-* stack is bloated, opaque, and insanely complex." That's my impression, every time I approach it.