[Cialug] how are you implementing "web services"

Dave J. Hala Jr. dave at 58ghz.net
Fri Dec 7 14:47:27 CST 2007


I dunno... I was just quessing as to why... Had I been able to determine
what the issue was, the project would have been a success.

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:40 -0600, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> 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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