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Best practices for Web Services versioning

Fri, 10/07/2005 - 10:23 — cat
Authors: 
Brown, K.; Ellis, M.
Author: 
Brown, K
Ellis, M
Year: 
2004
Venue: 
www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-version , Jan. 2004
URL: 
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-version
Citations: 
38
Citations range: 
10 - 49

API versioning is a common problem in the design of any distributed system, and Web services are unfortunately no exception. In this article, Kyle Brown and Michael Ellis will outline the scope of the versioning difficulties facing Web services developers, provide some template solutions, and discuss architectures and best practices for addressing the problem.