- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:06:44 -0500
- To: Michael Champion <mc@xegesis.org>
- Cc: "'''www-ws-arch@w3.org ' ' '" <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
> 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. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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