Yahoo! Web Services
on 07.21.07, 08:05am in yahoo! • comments (4)
Random poll: Do you use Yahoo!’s web services?
If so, I’d love to hear more about your experiences with them. Tell me about the cool applications you’ve built on top of them. Or, let me know some of the difficulties that you’ve faced integrating them into your projects.
Tell me the good, the bad and the ugly….
Kees (July 21, 2007 @ 11:46 am)
I have not used Yahoo web services at all, but I did take a quick look at them, expecting to find WSDL and other WS-*-type things. Instead, it is found it hard to find a real API reference that simply lists the calls that are supported and the results that they produce. I did find a lot of, fairly generic, programming examples for different languages.
NJ (July 22, 2007 @ 1:29 am)
Go to :-
http://microsoftupdates.blogspot.com/
Mr. Green Jeans (July 23, 2007 @ 2:16 pm)
The posting by “Kees” is somewhat amusing. The world has moved off WS-* and have moved to a world of simplicity. A simple HTTP GET and a URI is much more powerful that buying 20+ books to learn the various WS-* specifications.
At Microsoft, WS-* was a great idea started by Charles & Brad to combat Java. The idea was to make J2EE irrelevant by moving the world away from a dedicated app-server. The model was to copy OLE Automation and OLE in terms of typelibs (etc) - just build “web-based version”… by the way, the distraction of the industry from J2EE happened … so, the plan worked!
Use some simple verbs and a URI… get off the SOAP (WS-*) bandwagon. Kees, your showing your age or even your desire for insanely complicated architectures. Both are bad in an industry that is driven by dreamers and innovators.
Good luck in the old age home. Millie is looking good.
carl mussberger (July 23, 2007 @ 6:01 pm)
yahoo has an API? In the real world of it we don’t use external services. Everything comes out of our SQL server or salesforce.