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Hello www-tag, Article by Tim O'Reilly makes interesting reading. > Amazon has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services, and > 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the > corporate hype over the SOAP stack, this is pretty compelling > evidence that developers like the simpler REST approach. (I know > there are many more complex applications where SOAP is better, but > I've always liked technologies that have low barriers to entry and > grassroots adoption, and simple XML over HTTP approach seems to have > that winning combination.) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3005 from the license agreement I can confirm that they offer both approaches: >> Amazon.com Web Services is a platform to publish and invoke >> applications that perform various functions, such as retrieving >> information about Amazon.com products or adding a product to an >> Amazon.com shopping cart, wish list, or registry. Amazon.com Web >> Services can be accessed through two interfaces: XML over HTTP or >> SOAP. Both of these methods return "structured data" (product name, >> manufacturer, price, etc.) about products available at >> www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk (together, the "Amazon.com >> Website") based on parameters such as keyword search terms and >> browse tree nodes. http://associates.amazon.com/exec/panama/associates/join/developer/kit.html clearly I can't confirm what proportion of developers use which interface, or why. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.orgReceived on Sat Apr 5 09:15:38 2003
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