[Osr-101] Webdav vs. Atom vs. GData

[Michael Wechner]

Evaldas Taroza wrote:

> Hi,
> can anyone explain why Neutron is higher level than Webdav and lower 
> level than Atom?
>
> I was looking at Google Data API 
> (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html) and it looks that it 
> does pretty much the same as Neutron or at least it could be extended 
> to do the same as Neutron does.


to be honest I have never looked at gdata (just as the Atom guys never 
looked at WenDAV originally ;-)

> In some sense it is also more than Atom.


yes, it is more than Atom. Atom was specially intended for blogging, 
although it is used for other stuff as well

> Or am I misunderstanding the Neutron protocol and purpose of it?


well, with Neutron we try to simplify as good as we can, but reuse from 
other protocols if possible.

Cheers

Michi

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