Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol
Posted by Hartmut Wilms From/InfoQ
Microsoft switches from the Web Structured, Schema’d & Searchable (Web3S) protocol to Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) for services offered by Microsoft's Live Platform on the Web.
David Treadwell, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Live Platform Services, announces some
news and updates on the Windows Live Platform Services. Under the topic "Standardization of frameworks and protocols" he states that
Microsoft is making a large investment in unifying our developer platform protocols for services on the open, standards-based Atom format (RFC 4287) and the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023)". At MIX we are enabling several new Live services with AtomPub endpoints which enable any HTTP-aware application to easily consume Atom feeds of photos and for unstructured application storage (see below for more details). Or you can use any Atom-aware public tools or libraries, such as .NET WCF Syndication to read or write these cloud service-based feeds.
AtomPub will also be used as the standard protocol for
ADO.NET Data Services (codename "Project Astoria"). Pablo Castro writes about
APP support in Astoria on the
Project Astoria Team Blog.
Dare Obasanjo explains why
Microsoft has changed its mind on APP and has obviously abandoned
Web3S:
The fact is when we listened to the community of Web developers the feedback was overwhelmingly clear that people would prefer if we worked together with the community to make AtomPub work for the scenarios we felt it wasn’t suited for than Microsoft creating a competing proprietary protocol.
Microsoft's decision is welcomed by Mark Baker in his blog post on
Web3s and Atom/APP:
I’m confident this is for the best. In addition to Atom/APP being existing standards (with an accompanying abundance of existing tooling), Microsoft will also gain the evolutionary advantages of the hypermedia as the engine of application state constraint, which Web3S opted to replace with a schema-driven application model.
Adapting the standardized Atom Publishing Protocol is in line with Microsoft's
new interoperability principles, support for
REST and
Syndication in WCF, and the high extensibility and pluggability of the
ASP.NET MVC Framework.
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