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Quote from Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Web Services

• A Web service is an archive of remote operations that can be called by sending messages over the Internet. A Web service provider publishes a Web service for query and use, and a Web service consumer calls operations from the service. A Web service provider makes available a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) document that defines the service interface. The WSDL document is in XML format. What happens behind the interface is up to the provider, but most providers map the interface to procedure calls in a supported programming language. Incoming requests from a consumer are passed through to the underlying code, and results are passed back to the consumer.

While I think I know what Web Services (WS) are, I haven't looked at them since we upgraded to version 7. The article makes it look incredibly complicated to do something relatively simple. I assume the WS will provide the RSS part of the design, right? I guess I'd have to know more about what your planning before I knew how WS fits in.

Quote from What is the Blogger data API?

• The Blogger data API allows client applications to view and update Blogger content in the form of Google data API feeds. Your client application can use the data API to create new blog posts, edit or delete existing posts, and query for posts that match particular criteria.

I think using a standard API is a good idea. Does this API mandate the use of Web Services?

Peace,

Rob:-]

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Chris,

I agree that an Xpages blog template would be an interesting approch and different from the other templates available ( unless Steve Castledine is secretly working on an Xpages version of the IBM Blog template for the 8.5 release )

I'd be careful about the Blogger API, I don;t know if the newer ATOM version carried over any of the API functions names but in the old version there was a function called DELETE and it's impossible to code that in a Lotus WebServices document as it's a reserved word.

Oh and feel free to rip the BlogSphere template apart for ideas etc.

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Oh, and BlogSphere has a MetaWebLogAPI implementation done in Java. The metaWeblogAPI is, in my opinion, better then the Blogger API.

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Did my RSS feed suddenly update at 3PM?! ;-)

@Rob:

Still hashing out some ideas around this, but I'm thinking that the the WS will provide ALL of the content - including the UI rendering - something like an XML + XSLT rendering XHTML content... but it's still a thought that's yet to be hashed out at this point.

As for the "incredibly complicated to do something relatively simple" - well, you get payback when you can load a 3rd-party weblog client that utlizes the given API and use that to maintain your weblog!

@Declan:

(We actually chatted about this via BleedYellow.com's Sametime before I could respond here...)

Calls to the DELETE method might be a problem, but I'm wondering if allowing that method to be called via Internet Site Document config will allow me to utilize it. I dunno, worth playing around with methinks.

And I'm looking at MetaWebLogAPI, as well (based on our conversation) on a few others. Nothing says that we can support all of them! ;-)

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