Yahoo joins the growing number of web sites exposing their API as Web Services. Their API is available from Yahoo Developer Network.
Interesting, they do not have a SOAP API, but only a REST based API. REST is getting very popular with developers, and Amazon has seen that 85% of their Web service API users, are using it via the REST interface.
REST (Representational State Transfer) is quite simple and elegant, with its resource 'nouns' (represented by a URL) and the four HTTP 'verbs' - GET/POST/PUT/DELETE mapping nicely to CURD operations. However while I can see it being successful in applications like the Yahoo search API, it is, IMO, not very appropriate when used in the context of integrating more complex applications.
Posted by vivek at March 1, 2005 05:15 PM | TrackBack