I have talked to a couple of guys at GS and they said:
The client is very heavy, so the protocol used to access it is not the
issue. Making sense of the data and keeping it integral is the
challenge and that is very much the task of the client, not the server.
Any API would have to incorporate most of ArchiCAD to be able to
communicate with the BIM Server.
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