Think Outside the Feed

Thoughts on the emerging use of RSS by Bill French and F. Andy Seidl, Co-founders of MyST Technology Partners.
October 28, 2005

Systems Integration with RSS

As we've said (for many years), RSS is a specification for solving problems.

Charlie Wood recently observed the benefits of RSS for lightweight EAI (enterprise application integration). This is neither a new idea, nor is it one that you see often; perhaps because RSS is regarded as a specification by few and a feature by many. I blame the media for this misdirection.

"The original intent of RSS was to allow web sites to subscribe to each other's headlines. The technology's flexibility also allows enterprise applications to subscribe to each other's data. That's powerful stuff." - Charlie Wood

Indeed, very powerful. We use RSS in that capacity quite often - read more...

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