ESRI posts David Chappell’s 2009 Developer Summit Keynote
April 7, 2009 5 Comments
If you only watch one keynote this year, make it this one.
Watch the video! What are you waiting for? Chinese New Year?
SOAP is for cleaning…
March 6, 2009 13 Comments
Of course this is not surprising in the least bit, but Google is abandoning their SOAP API to focus on their RESTful APIs. Most developers, myself included, prefer working with RESTful services and I’m interested in seeing if other companies will start “retiring” their SOAP APIs for their newer RESTful ones. ESRI, MapGuide, and GeoServer are all great RESTful implementations, but they are still young and immature. Just looking at the ESRI ArcGIS Server Mashup Challenge submissions, you can see the sheer number of REST API, JSAPI, Flex API projects and the lack of Web ADF projects. As these RESTful APIs get more mature, it is clear that ESRI SOAP APIs are destined to follow Google’s SOAP APIs into depreciation.
Even John Brown looked at ESRI's RESTful API for salvation.
