RE: Authentication

[Nelson Minar <nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Is the REST API going to be the only official Atom API?

No! This is very much under discussion. Joe's hard work on the API
document is great, but I think of it at this point as a proposal, not
the official word. Someone really needs to write a SOAP-like proposal
as well, so we can compre. I think the differences won't be so great.

>Regarding a SOAP API:  There is a tremendous amount of work being done
>on this issue already [1]
>[1] Web Services Secure Conversation
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/ws/2002/12/ws-secure-conversation/
>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-secon/

Do you have information on how widespread client-side support for
this stuff is? Can I easily write a SOAP client in Perl, Python, .NET,
and Java that calls a WS-Security spec?

In my mind, WSDL & client stub generation is the big thing in favour
of SOAP. But I don't know the state of the art in client implementations.