Further adventures in lightweight service composition. I normally avoid posting and dissecting code here, but I broke the rule last Thursday and will again today because my latest round of LibraryLookup work highlights interesting opportunities for service composition at the tolerant end of the tolerance continuum. Last week's adventure was a lightweight service orchestration that connects Amazon's wishlist to RSS, by way of the OCLC xISBN service and a local library catalog. Among other things, that composite solved a longstanding problem with LibraryLookup: an ISBN identifies just one manifestation of a work -- e.g., paperback versus hardcover -- not all of them.
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