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Google Deprecates SOAP API

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. bastards by PktLoss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bastards, I wrote one of those books! Quick buy your copy today, it's practicaly a collectable now.

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  2. Re:WTF is SOAP? by MeanMF · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spoken like a true Slashdotter... :)

  3. Soap, what was that? by canuck57 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Soap, what was that....

    Maybe something to do with:

    UNIX Sex

    {look;gawk;find;sed;talk;grep;touch;finger;find;fl ex;unzip;head;tail; mount;workbone;fsck;yes;gasp;fsck;more;yes;yes;eje ct;umount;makeclean; zip;split;done;exit:xargs!!;)}

    1. Re:Soap, what was that? by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Funny
      {look;gawk;find;sed;talk;grep;touch;finger;find;fl ex;unzip;head;tail; mount;workbone;fsck;yes;gasp;fsck;more;yes;yes;eje ct;umount;makeclean; zip;split;done;exit:xargs!!;)}

      So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...)
      The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.
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    2. Re:Soap, what was that? by value_added · · Score: 5, Funny

      So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...) The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.

      Yeah, but in the guy's defense, there wasn't a single argument to any of those commands.

    3. Re:Soap, what was that? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails. Who said anything about execution? Sounds like you're into some sick kind of sudo masochism.
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    4. Re:Soap, what was that? by NthDegree256 · · Score: 5, Funny
      So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape?
      You'd think Google would have paid attention to all those prison horror stories about dropping the SOAP.
  4. Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without soap Google will become evil.