Web Service for IAM
DATE and TIME: 27-May-2011 9:00 am
CONVENER: RL Bob Morgan and Chad Rabideau
SCRIBE: Todd Piket and Rodger Hendricks
# of ATTENDEES:
MAIN ISSUES DISCUSSED
- Purpose of web services and benefits of web services. Very helpful in providing a standard, simple interface for developers to gain access to data without having to learn LDAP, JDBC and other protocols. Developers prefer a RESTful interface using JSON.
- Does a message bus fit into web services? What kinds of messages, thick (data-rich) or thin?
- How do you represent the data? New debate about the semantics each time? A standard for commonly-vended information?
ACTIVITIES GOING FORWARD / NEXT STEPS
- Continued work toward standardizing web service calls and, potentially, message formats (e.g., JSON, XML, SOAP).
- Work together to summarize the current landscape, review existing products, identify gaps. (Where does this get done?)