[OT] Web Services Dead? Don't Tell Amazon

[David Bovill]

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").