Hel O'Ween
Men On A Mission
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Posted - 2016.11.11 10:06:42 -
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ESI API aka "The End Is Near"
Fellow EWA users,
in case you missed the recent memodev blog, CCP just announced a new API for EVE: EIS.
I'll spare you the technical details, which you can find in the above linked dev blogs, if you're interested. Here's the important part concerning EWA (I've boldened the important bits):
Quote: Once we replicate all current CREST and XML API functionality in ESI, we will be shutting down both services. We are targeting 18 months from the release of this blog[/b] to achieve functional equivalence and work with application developers to upgrade their applications. Removing the need to use the XML API will be our first priority. We will be monitoring use of the XML API and CREST to both identify and assist third party developers in their migration efforts.
This is going to be an orderly and measured winding down of operations. As the first step of that, developers should know that as of the release of this blog, CREST and the XML API are officially in maintenance only mode. We will continue to deploy security updates and critical bug fixes to them, but any new feature requests will be implemented in the ESI API.
This means that EWA would have be to rewritten, basically from scratch. I'm not going to do that. Considering the new technology used for ESI, Swagger, and that EWA is written in VB6 (which obviously still works, but is heavily outdated) and that both technologies don't fit well together (there's Swagger support at all for VBClassic), I herewith declare the end of EWA.
I'll keep publishing database updates as long as the XML API works, but once that's switched off by CCP - it's game over. As mentioned in the quote above, that'll leaves you with ~18 month to hunt down and settle with an alternative marketing companion.
A personal note: when I started EWA back in 2007 and made it available to the public in 2008, I never thought that it would last this long. I've I'm not totally mistaken, EWA is the oldest, still supported 3rd party trading application. Even when I took a ~1 year off (Monoclegate), I kept publishing database updates. It therefore is sad to see this "baby of mine" die, but times are changing and I fully understand CCP moving on/forward. It was good while it lasted.
Fly safe! Hel
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