[Fusionforge-general] Mylyn and REST - Was: Re: SOAP Api change proposition

[Christian Bayle]

On 26/03/2010 14:58, Olivier Berger wrote:
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>> At least I think we have a common interest of having a well working mylyn
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> I'm not sure whom you're talking to :-/ assuming to me and our efforts
> on REST APIs ;)
>
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I just pointed the fact we want a well working mylyn
> FYI, Mylyn will most likely be connecting to FF through a REST API using
> the OSLC-CM protocol than through SOAP (unless someone already has a
> Mylyn connector using SOAP)
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Just imagine it's easy to provide the same SOAP api, than
the best of all tracker already having one SOAP connector
> AFAICT, Mylyn seems to be re-orienting on OSLC for connectors (unless
> for Bugzilla and Trac which would stay as is : SOAP or XML-RPC ?), so
> developping new connectors on top of OSLC-CM will mean much less work
> since base classes will already be there.
>
> But Christian you were probably responding to Laurent ;) ... in any
> case, that's my bits about Mylyn, and I'm not sure Laurent was
> addressing Mylyn among his needs for APIs ;)
>
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If I don't miss Laurent mentionned the fact of having mylyn working well 
with the forge.
Sorry if this was not the case.
Going toward standart is of course preferable, but having a better SOAP 
api also make sens.

Cheers

Christian