[asterisk-users] Asterisk 12.0.0-alpha1 Now Available!

[Matt Behrens]

On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Asterisk Development Team <asteriskteam at digium.com> wrote:

> * The Asterisk RESTful Interface (ARI) has been added. This interface lets
>  external systems harness the telephony primitives within Asterisk to develop
>  their own communications applications. Communication with Asterisk is done
>  through a REST interface, while asynchronous events from Asterisk are
>  encoded in JSON and sent via a WebSocket. More information on ARI can be found
>  at https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/x/lYBbAQ
> 
> * Major standardization of the Asterisk Manager Interface and its events have
>  occurred within this version. In particular, the names of Asterisk channels
>  no longer change and are stable throughout the lifetime of the channel.
>  More information on the changes in AMI can be seen in the AMI 1.4
>  Specification at https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/x/dAFRAQ

I've been looking occasionally at how 12 work was going and I'm curious about how AMI and ARI relate.  Do they effectively expose the same functionality, just offering a different style of communication?  Or is there be a reason to prefer one over the other beyond the protocols used?

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