Article on 'Intro to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)'

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http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/morgan/</p>



Related to the last post, this article from the latest issue of Ariadne gives a good introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service, a protocol designed to "define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses."

Even if the specific topic isn't greatly of interest to you, the article may be useful in having one of the most stragithforward explanations of the difference between SOAP and REST-based web services, and why, contrary to all the hype, there is still some value in SOAP-based services. - SWL

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