Re: AtomAPI Rev 08

[Simon Fell <soap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:51:01 -0500, in soap you wrote:

>
>Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>> 
>> --- Steve Jenson <sjenson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>>Do you mean that you're opposed to the REST version
>>>or that
>>>you think the SOAP version is being swept under the
>>>rug? 
>> 
>> The latter. I don't plan to implement the RESTful API
>> so I'm not interested in it, however I do plan to
>> implement a SOAPy version of the API. 
>
>If you are talking about a client (RSSBandit), then this is a valid choice.
>
>If you are talking about a server, then this would be very unfortunate 
>and would likely eliminate a large number of clients from being used 
>with your server.
>
>People who have implemented both the interfaces on their servers found 
>that it isn't much code as there is (by design) a precise one-to-one 
>mapping between the two.
>
>- Sam Ruby

If they are that similar why do we need both ?

Cheers
Simon