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Re:So you want to offer a public API … by derpmeister on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:57AM (#4290432)
First you use SOAP and it's nice, but after a while it's not good enough and you implement WSDL. Corporate overlords see it and suddenly everything has to be WS-YouNameIt (especially in banks and big telco). You end up in the deepest valleys of XML hell, colloquially known as WS-DeathStar.
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Re:So you want to offer a public API … by pjmlp on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @08:51AM (#4290638)
Do to my consulting work, I've been several times through such walk.
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