Re: non-outcry over eBay SOAP interace

> I'm curious -- why didn't eBay get the thrashing that you gave Google 
> when they announced a non-REST API? Do you accept that eBay's needs are 
> different and SOAP is appropriate, or were y'all just asleep at the 
> switch <duck>

If their needs include interfacing with untrusted third parties over the
Internet, and they didn't adopt a generic interface (not necessarily
REST's uniform interface), then they screwed up, plain and simple.
They'll discover that in time (just like Groove did).

Furthermore, if a coarse grained, document exchange style is appropriate
for those systems, it was more than likely a mistake not to use the
uniform interface.

What can I say?  The Web is da bomb.

When eBay actually publishes these APIs, I'll be able to comment in more
detail.

Mark.
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Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca