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Article:
 Google's Gaffe
Subject: What??!
Date: 2002-05-14 13:07:59
From: Chris Nelson

Why are you arguing against Web Services standards? You spent the entire article reinventing your own non-standard, arcane, redundant layer over the standard Web Services compatible API provided by Google. What are you thinking? You are honestly arguing against standardization? I agree with the previous comment "You might as well ditch XML too". Heck, why not invent your own alphabet?


We tied the google engine into our website in 10 minutes. We feed the WSDL to our toolkit and it spits out a proxy. We plug it into our web app and bang, we're done. This is the way it should be.


So now you are honestly saying people should use some non-standard XML schema over pure HTTP because you say so?? What are you doing telling people stuff like this? It's like arguing against the wheel. Can you understand how it makes people who integrate systems lives exponentially more difficult. Web services is the first technology to come along that may make systems integration actually realistic.


Please do us all a favor and try to see how you can help instead of steering people into a ditch.



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  • What??!
    2002-06-03 09:25:32 Mark Baker

    Nelson,


    Paul reinvented nothing. He just used HTTP and URIs. No further agreement (and therefore standardization) was necessary.


    Have you compared your SOAP API to what your partners are using at http://www.google.com/xml (using the DTD at http://www.google.com/google.dtd)?


    MB


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