- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:45:19 -0500
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:40:14PM -0700, Champion, Mike wrote: > > So where are the standard Web service APIs? > > Huh? APIs??? Yah, APIs. HTTP provides a standardized one. Why haven't I seen people talk about API standardization yet? Is it considered a good thing that if Altavista wants to Web-service-enable their search engine, that they should use a different API than Google? I would hope not. > Any standards that you can use to explain to a stupid machine what to look > for in a message and how to use its value in a routing/filtering/cacheing > decision enhance "visibility" IMHO. That's true, but some kinds of information have a bigger effect on visibility than others. The method/action/operation/whatever has the largest effect. MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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