Archive for the ‘API’ Category

 

Versioning REST web services

May 19th, 2008

While poring over versioning issues on RESTful web services i stumbled upon Peter Williams post proposing the use of vendor MIME media types to get the versioning under control. I really like this idea because it is simple and fits tightly to the REST approach. But trying to apply his approach in reality some difficulties [...]

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Providing an API is only half the rent

May 1st, 2008

It’s nearly considered good manners to provide an API if you are running some serious e-business. Exposing some of your business artifacts makes you integrable, mashable simply buzzable. But how about your business logic your artifacts are bound to? If you only want to give a simple listing API to your customers so that they [...]

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