From: Christian Meder Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:44:28 GMT Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft Message-ID: <1114177468.3233.55.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4268F027.6030304@eldiablo.co.uk> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:37 +0100, El Draper wrote: > Christian Meder wrote: > > >Comments ? Ideas ? Other feedback ? > > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > New around these parts, so be gentle :-) > > I would like to suggest the idea of a SOAP interface. If we are talking > about a true service orientated API, then a way of calling a uri and > having it return a nice SOAP packet with the return data in it would be > great. If we ensured compliance with web service standards, then it > would then mean anyone could write themselves a client desktop based > program, a web interface, or any utility command line tools (in Java, > .net, whatever they want, and for whatever platform), that could > communicate with the web service and retrieve relevant data. You'd then > have a true service interface into a Git repository. Seeing as how the > idea of returning XML has already come up, I don't think it would be a > stretch to extend the web interface to returning web service compliant > SOAP packets in order to return data. Ok, I should've known we get into this being a Web Java guy by profession ;-) Right now I'd like to concentrate more on a RESTful approach http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html I'm concentrating on getting a clean and simple API for mere mortals and developers alike. SOAP is likely further down on my list. But I certainly will take patches ;-) Christian -- Christian Meder, email: chris@absolutegiganten.org The Way-Seeking Mind of a tenzo is actualized by rolling up your sleeves. (Eihei Dogen Zenji)