[OT] Web Services Dead? Don't Tell Amazon
David Bovill
david at openpartnership.net
Mon Nov 21 14:12:49 EST 2005
On 21 Nov 2005, at 20:08, Dan Shafer wrote:
> During our recent thread on thin-client vs. desktop apps, several
> people suggested that Web Services were passe, outre and otherwise
> obsolete and deadsville.
>
> Someone forgot to tell amazon.com. They announced not one, not two,
> but three totally new Web services just this morning.
Amazon is a good case-study. Since they introduced RESTful web
services rather than SOAP or XMLRPC 85% of their web service users
user the REST based interface (it is simpler and works) - think "post
to url", and "get url").
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