Weblogs: Web Services Links

• Getting Data | The REST Dialogues -- An interesting 'discussion' showing the benefits of a REST architecture over SOAP, including how a URL space allows for scaling. An interesting notion is that 'the REST-aware community is to constantly look out for opportunities to conform and to standardise schemas and interactions' which gets away from the WSDL and XML Schema hell. That resonates strongly with the principles of Microformats.

• Dapper - Unleash your creativity -- Until organisations start providing real APIs to their (or my) data, Dapper fulfils a number of real world cases today. Its another building block in the web services platform.

• Dapper: The Data Mapper -- A way of building web services out of normal HTML pages. Uses the neat feature of taking two URLs from a site and comparing them - the differences will tend to be the dynamic data. That data can then be extracted and transformed into a structure fit for web services: any XML format, or JSON structure. Its interesting as a web service layer on top of existing web pages - opening the road to more structured data (copyright issues aside).

• YouTube Developer APIs -- Get videos by tag, featured videos, by user. Also allows you to get the details of a video. Same type of requests available about users. Rest and XML-RPC interfaces, returning XML.

• Yahoo! Answers API -- 10 recent questions by keyword, category, user id. And get the answers. Looks interesting as a river of news type front-end. The JSON callback method also works nicely.

• News Search Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services -- Very useful web service - finding news items based on a keyword search. The JSON output makes the service very easy to embed into a JavaScript enabled page.

• API Dashboard -- Tag-based directory of publicly available web services - even grouped by mashup usage.

• Let's REST! -- Alex Barnett has a link summary of REST based webservices, covering the pros and cons, the theory, some REST APIs.

• Working with the Yahoo! API -- This article explores how to integrate Yahoo! search into your software and Web-based applications.

• Has SOA jumped the shark? -- 'But SOA is intangible, and this may be the first time an entire industry is trying to push an intangible concept. It's going to take time. Web 2.0, on the other hand, has some very tangible deliverables, such as Google Maps-based applications and wikis. Fun stuff businesspeople can understand and can see right in front of them.'

• SOAPful and RESTful SOA: co-existing in the enterprise -- Phil Windley: 'I'm convinced that RESTful Web services would make more headway in the enterprise if there were a standard for description and discovery. Many REST proponents have avoided these topics, almost as a badge of honor.'

• The End of SOA -- Tim Bray: 'Don't do anything. SOA may have meant something once but it's just vendor bullshit now.'

• Web services visionary -- An interview with Sam Ruby, where he talks about SOAP and REST, and where extreme advocates of both talk past each other. Sam's perspective is that taking the best of both worlds 'you end up with an extensible and modular and loosely coupled system.' (via Sam Ruby entry on Wikipedia)

• The myth of start small -- Service Orientated Architecture - 'the things you do in a pilot are the exact opposite of what you need to do to get to enterprise scale. The shortcuts that seemed so expedient in the small picture are impossible to avoid when you take a serious corporate asset and put it up as a live service.'

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