I'm very pleased others are joining me in pursuit of
"native" MicroSoft Windows API support.
Perhaps now the Linux / Perl extremists will stop flaming
me via my personal email address .....
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:18:42 -0500
jwr4@einfosystems.net wrote:
>I'm in favor of Tucows using their energy to produce a
>webservice
>accessible via SOAP or HTTPS. In fact I am working on
>such a project now
>in VB.Net. That would be a platform and language neutral
>solution, which
>also adheres to open standards. We(as in the dev
>community here) could
>supply a variety of client software, opening up a whole
>new profit
>center in the process. There are always the open source
>Perl and PHP
>clients for those who want free software. The Tucows
>folks could
>concentrate on adding features to the webservice like
>WS-Security, etc.
>
>I was able to write a web client in a few hours for the
>amazon.com web
>service to search for books and CDs.
>
>Windows is definitely the ugly stepchild here, we will
>fix that in a few
>months.
>
>Of course, it would be nice to know what Tucows' plans
>are, so we are
>not duplicating efforts.
>
>John W Roche
>eInfosystems.net
>
>>> Again, effectively, Tucows only supports a single
>> configuration in a specific environment.
>
>>> I am in favour of SOAP over HTTPS. Or
>something standard, let's not reinvent the wheel! SOAP
>runs on Java,
>Perl, PHP, C (raise your hand if it doesn't run on your
>platform :-)),
>etc.. Tucows uses XML anyway, the XML DTD-s are already
>there...
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