[Cialug] how are you implementing "web services"

[Stuart Thiessen]

I am curious ... (forgive me if it is obvious and I have missed it),  
but why would old school windows people have a negative reaction?

Stuart

On 7 Dec 2007, at 14:26 , Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

> I did a little proof of concept with XMLrpc about a year ago. It was
> cool with the Linux people, but the old school windows people were not
> at all thrilled -there was a ton of resistance.
>
> I don't know if it was political, platform or just change.  I really
> like the php implementation of XMLrpc.
>
>
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:59 -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> If you've written software that exposes an externally accessible API
>> (either public or for your own consumption) how are you doing it?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Matthew Nuzum
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