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Why doesn't AWS provide domain registration? [closed]
The Amazon Web Services ecosystem provides for processing, networking, data storage, database services, deployment, on and on...pretty much everything you'd need to host your own website.
Curiously ...
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ASP.NET MVC Web Site & WCF Web Service - Sharing functionalities
I have the following situation: I have to create a website and a web service that will share a part of the functionalities.
This is why I do not want to write code twice.
I have thought of the ...
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Designing models for a generic service layer
We are building a web interface to a tiered membership system, which will interface with a third-party CRM web service for the creation and management of accounts. The web service, unfortunately, is ...
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How to implement two different web services running the same business logic?
We are developing a ReSTful HTTP API with Servicestack(.NET).
Some of the API clients, which have a subset of the actions, demand a service which could be easily added with all the entities, like ...
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Advice on App/Service Architecture
I'm starting a project that will have a web front end for the users coupled with a database. There will then be a stand-alone service running that will, on a specified interval, poll an API and update ...
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Reuse Business Logic between Web and API
We have a website and two mobile apps that connect through an API. All the platforms do the exactly same things. Right now the structure is the following:
Website. It manages models, controllers, ...
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Thin client Web browser?
Many times i have heard people saying that a particular hardware to be running a thin client web browser. But from the definition of "thin-client", doesnt all browser qualify as a thin-client? as all ...
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Motivation for a service layer (instead of just copying dlls)?
I'm creating an application which has 2 different UIs so I'm making it with a service layer which I understood is appropriate for such scenario.
However I found myself just creating web methods for ...
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Service Layer - how broad should it be, and should it also be used from the local application?
The background:
I need to build a desktop application with some operations (CRUD and more) (=winforms), I need to make another application which will re-use some of the functions of the main ...
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Distributed Transaction Framework across webservices
I am designing a new system that has one central web service and several site web services which are spread across the country and some overseas. It has some data that must be identical on all sites.
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How essential is it to make a service layer?
I started building an app in 3 layers (DAL, BL, UI) [it mainly handles CRM, some sales reports and inventory].
A colleague told me that I must move to service layer pattern, that developers came to ...
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Architecture for interfacing multiple applications
Let's say you have a Master Database and a few External/Internal applications that use WebServices to interface data.
What would be your preferred architecture to interface data from and to those ...
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DAO/Webservice Consumption in Web Application
I am currently working on converting a "legacy" web-based (Coldfusion) application from single data source (MSSQL database) to multi-tier OOP.
In my current system there is a read/write database with ...
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REST - Tradeoffs between content negotiation via Accept header versus extensions
I'm working through designing a RESTful API. We know we want to return JSON and XML for any given resource. I had been thinking we would do something like this:
GET /api/something?param1=value1
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Which books are good resources for designing APIs
I am looking for a book on how to design a web-service API. I'm constrained to using RPC-style Web services.
In particular, I'm looking for guidance on
[balancing...] granular vs course services
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Choosing right technology for messaging system
I'm working on a messaging system for two years now, the system was written by a long ago gone team and involves emails and document processing. The basic process is:
Receive an email, parse it, ...
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Carpool logical architecture
I'm designing a carpool system (drivers can publish their routes and passengers can subscribe to them) with WebServices(axis2) and Android clients (ksoap2).
I have been having problems with the ...
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You write the server, I write the client: Best practices for designing an API?
I'm working on a brand new application that involves a client and a server. Specifically, it's a native mobile app talking to a web server, using a custom API that we will define. I was hired to write ...
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N-Tiered Web App Using JQuery/ASP.NET Web Services
For fairly small, non-complex web applications, we have utilized jQuery to make asynchronous calls to an ASP.NET web service for interaction with our Sqlite data store. This has proven to be a pretty ...
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What is the best way to do offline failover of a desktop based client that uses a web service?
I have three incoming projects that share a common problem:
they need to have the logic on a web system and they need a local application (e.g. point of sale) that communicates with such system ...
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What is one correct architecture when using a DB with multiple clients?
We have a legacy system with data stored in a SQL database.
Several clients connects to this database using a web service.
The web service expose a lot of "commands" to query the database and to "do" ...
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How can I optimally consume and re-syndicate a REST web service
I need to write an application which consumes a forum's content via a REST API and stores threads and posts. The application will act as a bridge layer between the forum and write data to a third ...
