- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:29:42 -0400
- To: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
- Cc: "Www-Ws-Arch@W3. Org" <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:01:39PM -0700, Ugo Corda wrote: > Amazon just announced a Web Services-based access to its services. See > http://www.amazon.com/webservices . > > >From a quick look at the toolkit documentation, it looks like they support > both HTTP-based and SOAP-based access. The HTTP-based access returns an XML > document, and it looks to me like the first commercial high-profile REST > approach to Web Services They actually released the HTTP/XML system months ago, but I guess decided to announce it as part of their SOAP support. See; https://associates.amazon.com/exec/panama/associates/tg/browse/-/567830 (requires registration as an associate) Also, there's a lot of commercial REST based XML services out there. Much of the electronic news syndication industry works on RSS over HTTP, for example. > (besides the original Google HTTP access, which was > dropped at the time of their official WS announcement). It was dropped from public use long before their SOAP announcement. But Google partners can still use it. FWIW, if you're a Google partner, see; http://www.google.com/xml MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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