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Posted - 2008.09.09 09:29:00 -
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We are aware of this, but have no plans to work round the issue.
Longer term we are actually looking to migrate the API to a Web Service (fully standards compliant) as it provides us a number of benefits and development improvements.
CCP Lingorm CCP Quality Assurance QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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Posted - 2008.09.11 09:01:00 -
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6-12 would be a good 'guesstimate'. I do know it is being seriously considered.
We would still maintain the existing XML interface, but it would not be upgraded and all new functionality would go to the Web Service.
CCP Lingorm CCP Quality Assurance QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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Posted - 2008.09.19 16:07:00 -
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The choice at the time was made because it was believed that XML would prove more adaptable to most of the programmers that would be using it.
Now, given the rise of Web Services and the better support for them in most programming languages we have revisited the idea and think that web services are a better long term strategic choice for this part of EVE.
CCP Lingorm CCP Quality Assurance QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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Posted - 2008.10.21 13:57:00 -
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hehehehe ... sorry, but the API was made before myself and Elerhino started at CCP, we have been picked to carry it on and to make it what we want it to be long term (with better caching and stuff) web services are a better choice.
But as I said we are keeping the old functionality so you do not have to go out and completely rewrite your applications.
We will also have some other news about the API at the Fanfest (will be posted here the week after) that I am sure you will all like.
CCP Lingorm CCP Quality Assurance QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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Posted - 2008.11.04 09:29:00 -
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We have been looking at Web Services for a number of reasons.
1) It reduces parsing. 2) There are a number of industry tools available to enable better caching of results. 3) We are doing more websites ourselves and if we are using the same system then the players get access to the same API (within reason, we would not expose account/billing API's etc) 4) We have looked at redoing the Restful XMl as a wrapper on top of the Web Service. So that it is consolidated at our end but you could still use the XML if you wanted.
Elerhino and I are holding a round table at Fanfest and will be talking with people about this and other ideas we have.
CCP Lingorm CCP Quality Assurance QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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