Google Kills SOAP NOT
Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates: "What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the terms of use stating that "The API is limited to allowing You to host and display Google Search Results on your site, and does not provide You with the ability to access other underlying Google Services or data."
The AJAX API is a Web service that works for Google because its terms of use are very prescriptive for how to build a service that ensures Google's advertising machine gets exposure and clicks. That's certainly a reasonable business decision, but has nothing to do with SOAP vs. REST or anything else technical...That's what their business is about, not software." Don is another that finds the irony a bit much.
I'd like to emphasize the not software part especially in light of Googler Steve Yegge's Ridiculous post who sprouted off for pages against Agile. He didn't know a thing about Agile which showed in his post - almost nothing he said was correct or substantiated. He glorified a cowboy egocentric coding style that is thankfully long gone from most companies. You get to do that when YOU DON'T BUILD REAL SOFTWARE and build glorified web sites that sell advertising that say "whoops" all the time. At least I know one company I'll never work for.
