June 2007
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | In which we narrowly save Dare from inventing his own publishing protocol
by mbertier & 1 otherAh, so if these issues just turn out to be misunderstandings on your part then Microsoft will just use the APP and not roll out its own protocol? I'm so glad to hear that.
WADL waffling
by mbertier (via)Joe Gregorio answered some questions about WADL in his post "Do we need WADL?". Also note that Leonard Richardson has chimed in recently on the WADL issue. And I of course have some different thoughts. :-)
March 2007
Automatic Multi Language Program Library Generation for REST APIs
by mbertier (via)Besides all these negative points, there are very strong positive points as well. OK, SOAP/WSDL might not be the best choice for every application, but for many at least it is a not so bad one. And even if code generation does not always work perfectly, it usually saves a lot of work. There is just this feeling that there should be something simpler, more straight-forward, and more intuitive. And then REST enters the stage. It is not that REST by definition is easier than SOAP/WSDL. In fact, for machines it is not easier at all.
InfoQ: WADL REST API description language getting some attention
by mbertier & 2 others, 3 comments (via)Last week, Google's Thomas Steiner unveiled that he is working on a Google project for generating language specific client libraries from WADL and generating WADL from documentation examples, tentatively called Google REST Compile and Google REST Describe. Thomas chose WADL as the description language to be used with the new tool, after examining all the alternatives
February 2007
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST and WS-*
by mbertier & 2 others (via)If there
are many clients then the demands for caching semantics will be begin to
dominate. In that case you need to abandon HTTP as just a simple transport and
start using the application level semantics of HTTP to start leveraging the
caching architecture already built into the Internet.
rest-discuss : Message: Sun proposes to apply Web service standardization principles to REST
by mbertier (via)This is like asking Karl Rove and Dick Cheney to write the Democratic Party platform.
December 2006
Google SOAP Search API Discontinued
by mbertier (via)As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API.
November 2006
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services
by mbertier & 1 otherUsers and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources offering particular services and having particular properties, and should be able to do so with a high degree of automation if desired. Powerful tools should be enabled by service descriptions, across the Web service lifecycle. OWL-S (formerly DAML-S) is an ontology of services that makes these functionalities possible. In this submission we describe the overall structure of the ontology and its three main parts: the service profile for advertising and discovering services; the process model, which gives a detailed description of a service's operation; and the grounding, which provides details on how to interoperate with a service, via messages.
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other (via)Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources offering particular services and having particular properties, and should be able to do so with a high degree of automation if desired. Powerful tools should be enabled by service descriptions, across the Web service lifecycle. OWL-S (formerly DAML-S) is an ontology of services that makes these functionalities possible. In this submission we describe the overall structure of the ontology and its three main parts: the service profile for advertising and discovering services; the process model, which gives a detailed description of a service's operation; and the grounding, which provides details on how to interoperate with a service, via messages.
October 2006
Service Component Architecture v0.1.0 (alpha) released
by mbertierSCA allows you to turn PHP classes into Web services by adding a few simple phpDocumentor-style annotations. SCA will automatically generate WSDL for these services when required. SCA also uses the same annotations technique to allow PHP classes to declare dependencies on other Web services or PHP classes. At runtime it will then 'inject' proxies for these dependencies, which can then be used to call the Web services or classes
July 2006
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon Mechanical Turk / Amazon Web Services
by mbertierAmazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their processing by making requests of humans.
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