merging, relevance ranking, record sorting,
and faceted results.
It is middleware: it has no user interface of its own, but can be
- configured and controlled by a REST-like web-service to provide
+ configured and controlled by an XML-over-HTTP web-service to provide
metasearching functionality behind any user interface.
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Additional functionality such as
user management and attractive displays are expected to be implemented by
applications that use Pazpar2. Pazpar2 itself is user-interface independent.
- Its functionality is exposed through a simple REST-style web-service API,
+ Its functionality is exposed through a simple XML RPC web-service API,
designed to be easy to use from an AJAX-enabled browser, Flash
animation, Java applet, etc., or from a higher-level server-side language
like PHP, Perl or Java. Because session information can be shared between