OData - the Open Data Protocol

By Vasudev Ram

I read about OData - the Open Data Protocol - recently. It looks interesting. Seems to apply some of the principles of REST, HTTP (particularly the HTTP uniform interface), the Atom Publishing Protocol and JSON.



Excerpt from the site:

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The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. The protocol emerged from experiences implementing AtomPub clients and servers in a variety of products over the past several years. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources including, but not limited to, relational databases, file systems, content management systems and traditional web sites.

OData is consistent with the way the Web works - it makes a deep commitment to URIs for resource identification and commits to an HTTP-based, uniform interface for interacting with those resources (just like the Web). This commitment to core Web principles allows OData to enable a new level of data integration and interoperability across a broad range of clients, servers, services, and tools.]

Read more about OData here:

OData.org

Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises