Comments on: Yahoo RESTs http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/01/yahoo-rests/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: B. Rintoul http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/01/yahoo-rests/comment-page-1/#comment-474 B. Rintoul Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:21:54 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=339#comment-474 I love it! As I sat bewildered in 1999-2000 trying to come to terms with Microsoft's silly COM stuff, I also found myself in a state of amazement with all this talk about "interoperability" and how "web services" were going to allow heterogeneous systems to talk to each other... I was thinking: "Isn't this what web servers already do?!?" Turns out, all you have to do is return XML instead of HTML upon requesting a resource and - BOOM - you've got yourself a "web service"! I love it! As I sat bewildered in 1999-2000 trying to come to terms with Microsoft's silly COM stuff, I also found myself in a state of amazement with all this talk about "interoperability" and how "web services" were going to allow heterogeneous systems to talk to each other… I was thinking: "Isn't this what web servers already do?!?"

Turns out, all you have to do is return XML instead of HTML upon requesting a resource and – BOOM – you've got yourself a "web service"!

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