Taking ARES out for a test drive.

ActiveResource looks really cool, it allows you to use Rails goodness to create an API for your website pretty easily. XML consumers and producers to talk in a nice RESTful way.

You know, I used to be all about SOAP, and had grand plans to hook all programs in crystallography together with SOAP, but SOAP just got too big and crazy, too many big players in there. I think with this new RESTful way of doing things, you could have some really practical, useful and beautiful ways to hook a whole bunch of crystallography resources together.

Anybody want to pay me to do this? CCP4? Rigaku? PHENIX? Taverna? A synchrotron somewhere? Just let me know, it could be beautiful.