Google Deprecates SOAP API 240
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."
bastards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WTF is SOAP? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WTF is SOAP? (Score:2, Funny)
Based on the slashdotters I know, you aren't likely to get an answer to this here.
Soap, what was that? (Score:5, Funny)
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!!;)}
Don't be evil! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't be evil! (Score:4, Funny)
Um... seriously though. Give them a bit of time and see if the make and announcement and publish an alternative (non-AJAX) API.
Re:Soap, what was that? (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.
Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Soap, what was that? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but in the guy's defense, there wasn't a single argument to any of those commands.
Obligatory questions/puns (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Soap, what was that? (Score:5, Funny)
SOAP Nazis (Score:1, Funny)
Oh! Come On. (Score:4, Funny)
Come on... Cleaner than SOAP? What could be cleaner than SOAP?
Re:Soap, what was that? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WTF is SOAP? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about XMLRPC? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Honeymoon is Over? (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, but can I buy a Google API Key on eBay now that they're not being given away? Preliminary searches indicate 'no'.
Re:Honeymoon is Over? (Score:2, Funny)