Rationale

The workshop was intended to focus on concepts and requirements for high-level API suitable for developing Web-aware applications. An explicit goal of the workshop was to publish state of the art references to existing APIs.

The papers that were submitted covered a wide range of interests, including computation models, applications and user requirements, software architectures and libraries as well as heuristics and guidelines for API developers.


Rationale

Computation Models
 [Model],  [DOOWWW],  [CAMEO],  [HIPPO],  [V6]
Applications and Users
 [Meta],  [UOD],  [URA],  [VAPIS],  [VEMMI] ,  [Tele]
Software Architecture
 [W3CReference],  [V6],  [Broker],  [CAMEO],  [DejaVu],  [Jigsaw],  [FastCGI]
Heuristics and Guidelines
 [W3CReference],  [Configure],  [VAPIS]

slide: Rationale

As can be expected opinions diverged on many of the issues, even the need for APIs to exist at all. To get the flavor of the positions presented by the participants, some of the points put forward are listed below:

slide: Positions

A summary of the papers can be found together with the list of participants.