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REST/HTTP Service Versioning (Reponse to Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Jean-Jacques Dubray takes issue with my approach of using content negotiation to manage service versioning in HTTP. I actually hesitate to respond to Mr. Dubray because the overall tone of his piece is rather off putting. On the other hand, he raises a couple of interesting questions which I have been really looking for and excuse to [...]

Posted 18 May 2008 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged:

Versioning REST Web Services (Tricks and Tips)

In my previous post on this subject I described an approach to versioning the API of a REST/HTTP web service. This approach has significant advantages over the approach that is currently most common (i.e. embedding a version token in the URL). However, it does have some downsides. This post is an attempt to outline those and [...]

Posted 13 May 2008 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: ,

Versioning REST Web Services

Managing changes to APIs is hard. That is no surprise to anyone who has ever maintained an API of any sort. Web services, being a special case of API, are susceptible to many of the difficulties around versioning as other types of APIs. For HTTP based REST style web services the combination of resources and content [...]

Posted 11 May 2008 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (40) ° Also tagged: