Just 3 days after my Astoria blog entry and some more well-timed Astoria-related news has hit the shelves.
Jon Udell has done a podcast interview with the main man behind Astoria, Pablo Castro (I linked to Pablo's blog in my aforementioned blog entry). Jon talks about the interview here, Pablo talks about it here, and you can get the podcast from here (hear it from a webpage here).
Some juicy bits that piqued my interest:
- 32:03 "We have a .Net client library available". Fantastic - that means I can easily consume Astoria services from within SSIS. That's just the news I was after. I've asked the SSIS team if they had any plans to include Astoria adapters in the future and the response was decidedly non-committal. Not surprising I guess.
- 35:14 "We are looking to see if we can do a generic Astoria block [for Popfly]." In theory that could open up Popfly to a large amount of services simply using a single block.
- There's also some good stuff about using Astoria with AJAX and SilverLight applications in case you're that way inclined.
I'm still on the learning curve here but anyone who knows anything about Astoria and/or RESTful Web Services seem to mention the book "Restful Web Services" by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby so I'm currently trying to plough my way through that.
-Jamie