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color=#0000ff size=2>Can't speak personally, but the people I have worked (in
web and other areas) seem to lean towards XMLrpc and that gives it more
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color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Matthew Nuzum
[mailto:newz@bearfruit.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 07, 2007 2:00
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug]
how are you implementing "web services"<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>If you've written software that exposes an externally accessible
API (either public or for your own consumption) how are you doing
it?<BR><BR>I've used soap and xmlrpc, and between the two I'm starting to
prefer the simplicity of xmlrpc. However there's now REST, atom and other web
2.0 solutions.<BR><BR>What do you recommend when you're talking to other
people about webservices? (please note the platform, since java people and
perl people (if you can call them that) might suggest diff solutions) Also,
I'm interested in how you're dealing with authentication. <BR><BR>I'm about to
rewrite some code that provides a soap based interface. I'm not sure soap is
the best way, since it's been a thorn in my side since the beginning.
Especially testing. :-P<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Matthew Nuzum<BR>newz2000 on
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