Screen-based Web Service API

Thanks to Kevin Marks suggestion and an upset stomach which made me blink in and out of sleep for three hours (I am still short 5 hours), I came up with a new design for the web service I was working on, a design which I am calling screen-based web service API. It's not REST so I figured the design approach calls for a different name and, since the approach is similar to the mainframe COBOL application screen scraping web services, the word screen makes sense. The first cut of the web service API was of traditional RPC-based design. It was functional but none of my client's customers put it into production use. Many stories and lessons there. The second cut was RESTish grocery bag-based design which I just spent three weeks implementing. Most of that three weeks was spent on eating my own dog food. By the last week, I was terrifyingly convinced that it would take more than a month for a customer to integrate the web service into their webapp. What I wanted was some where between ...

07:16:13 November 2, 2005, Wednesday (PST) Source: Don Park's Daily Habit

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