[haiku] Re: GSoC Web Services Kit OS integration

> I've submitted an application for and have started planning a Web 
> Services
> Kit for Haiku.  Stephan Aßmus commented on my proposal:
> 
>  The only thing which I am missing is some kind of vision for how 
> Haiku
> applications could make use of the Services Kit (how about "Web 
> Services
> Kit"?) in a cross-service way. Ie the user defines his preferred
> communication service in a Haiku preflet and applications using the 
> Services
> Kit can provide certain basic team work features across any of the 
> possible
> services without knowing the specific service.

I'm not sure exactly what's the extend of your definition of web 
service...

> What I'm still looking for is some examples of applications that 
> would work
> in this way.  I can come up with a somewhat contrived example of a
> application like "Haiku quotes of the day" that allows a user to 
> enter a
> quote and then collects and displays the communities quotes.  I'm 
> sure,

There are already some BeOS apps like BWeather which checks online 
meteo data, but they are hardcoded GUI apps.



François.

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