Google Deprecates SOAP API · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @03:28PM from the washed-up dept.

Michi writes "Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar reports that Google has deprecated their SOAP API; they aren't giving out any new SOAP Search API keys. Nelson Minar (the original author of the Google SOAP API) argues that this move is motivated by business reasons rather than technical ones. Does this mark the beginning of the end for SOAP or for ubiquitous middleware in general?" Forrest's post quotes developer Paul Bausch: "This is such a bad move because the Google API was the canonical example of how web services work. Not only is Google Hacks based on this API, but hundreds of other books and online examples use the Google API to show how to incorporate content from another site into a 3rd party application."

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Re:Honeymoon is Over? by mattpointblank · 2006-12-20 02:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because web designers (who seem to me the majority of the XML-endorsing universe) don't want to look at real code, they like to "simplify" everything into HTML-esque tags. I'm all for semantics when they're neccessary but we call it "code" for a reason.