A familiar face graces today's Oz IT section

Ian Holsman lists at holsman.net
Thu Mar 25 15:05:07 CST 2004


peter renshaw wrote:
> 
>>> this would make a good talk.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I'd be happy to, if people are interested. It's an interesting API - a
>> secure, stateful protocol using SOAP. It's somewhat hardcore to describe
>> what's "behind-the-scenes" though; and there's not much to say about how
>> to use it (it's so easy!)
>>  
>>
> Yes but a  demo (simple) with code doing something,  speaks volumes.
> 
>> If people are interested in some hard-core web services stuff, it could
>> be an interesting topic.
>>  

I'd be interested in hearing how he did it, and what kind of problems he 
had along the way, (like interoperability with clients, and scalaing issues)


>>
> The reason I reckon this would be interesting is that both google and 
> amazon have api's that allow you to programatically
> *do things*. Accessing email via an api is pretty much along this line. 
> Instead of  having to access via a client or webpage
> you can plug it into your own app.
> 
> anyone else on the list interested, listening in?
> 
> 




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