Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
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What language/framework/technology for such program? [closed]
I want to write a distributed application. I have a python script which makes a lot of math stuff. I want to run it on every pc in my lan network and check how fast its gonna work on every pc in my ...
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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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Is a data service API a good idea?
We currently have a monolithic Rails application that is really three separate applications that make use of the same data. In trying to figure out how to properly compartmentalize and break the ...
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Should I provide client libraries in some select languages along with the APIs themselves?
Say I have created a web service based on RESTful APIs. Does it make sense to also provide users with a client library for the API in some select languages which are likely to be the most used ones? ...
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Apache Tuscany based RESTful web services using Java [closed]
I am new to Apache Tuscany. Now we want to develop Apache Tuscany-based web services (RESTful). I developed a small application, and it's working well. Here is problem: I want to get the response as ...
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Does SOA service composition actually work in practice?
One of the main SOA service design principles is Service Composability principle
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_composability_principle).
The idea is that by composing new services using ...
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How can I choose what to use to write my next webservice in C#? [closed]
I'm about to write some webservices from scratch and I'm a bit confused about the approach to take. The obvious choices were WCF and MVC 4 Web API, but I am having a hard time deciding.
The two ...
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Steps in creating mpp file reader and viewer in C#.net web [closed]
I need to make a custom web application in which an MPP file can be read and viewed from a web browser. The application should deploy on a web server.
I need to know the answers of some basic ...
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How to get different resources in a single endpoint in RESTful?
I have a REST webservice that have a couple of resources, like Company and User. But now I need to make a modification to the API to return a special list combining company, user and maybe other type ...
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VPS vs Web Hosting: Which one is good for java web services
I have some questions about VPS and web hosting.
As far as I understand, VPS is a virtual machine on which we can do anything as we can do with our local machine. Install software, change settings ...
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Technology Choice: Throttling Job Queue behind ASP.Net/SignalR Service [closed]
I got a webservice consisting primarily of SignalR hubs hosted in an ASP. Net site. Clients (Silverlight) talk to that service and, amongst other things, can initiate jobs. A job consists of between ...
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Is RESTful API appropriate for services which are nearly computational in nature?
Is RESTful API appropriate for the following scenario?
A time-limited token is obtained, which will last for one minute only
Image is uploaded to a server
Server performs some CPU-heavy image ...
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DDD - Domain Object calling a web service
Is it ok to call a webservice from a Domain object?.
As I write the question I am thinking that you should never do that, as it is poor design, but the situation is the following:
I have a domain ...
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How to build a highly scalable REST web service? [closed]
Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish, which is a public url-based youtube to animate gif conversion service. (ex. http://a.com/youtubevideourl/out.gif) I'm not sure as to what specific ...
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What are the best practices to secure a web API?
I need to build a web service API for our mobile app to interact with our server & database (in ASP.Net MVC 4, but that's hardly relevant). Wile most actions do not need users to be registered ...
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Is this solution RESTful and secure?
Our product registers new players on our service, and we've chosen to host it on Azure (we're using .NET) and we wanted it to be stateless (for scalability) and relatively secure.
Since this is the ...
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Coarse grained remote interface vs encapsulating business logic
I'm writing a Web Service that will be consumed by a Mobile client.
The Mobile client has to make several chained requirements checks to determine whether the user may initiate a request, and if so ...
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Is there a better way to consume an ASP.NET Web API call in an MVC controller?
In a new project I am creating for my work I am creating a fairly large ASP.NET Web API. The api will be in a separate visual studio solution that also contains all of my business logic and database ...
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How can we avoid having to build yet another CRM system from scratch
We are building an accounting web application. In our database, we store basic data about our customers, like phone number, their login informations, because these things are tied into our web ...
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Web service for pulling up-to-date payroll tax information?
Are there any web services (json or xml) in which you can input demographic information about an employee and get back the tax rate that they are to be taxed at a federal, state, and local level?
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How to decide the token expiry time in REST web service
I am working on creating a REST ws exposing few API's. A token is required for each API call. I am confused about the expiry time to be set for the token.
Security+Performance wise what is the ideal ...
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where to use web services [closed]
I am discovering web services to implement in my ASP.Net website. I visited many sites about Why use webservices and read many articles and found out that web services are good when you have something ...
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Best practice for handling asynchronous inter communication?
Recently completed a project for handling credit card processing. One of the difficulties I faced was handling the delay / possible failure of notification messages. The most complex example was:
an ...
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Does ASP.NET MVC, or any other modern web development framework provide ONE single web development environment? [closed]
I keep searching for this online with no answer. I understand that web development you worry about the front end (HTML, CSS, javascript) and the backend (PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, etc). All of these use ...
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For a web-application, should I programmatically create the database tables or provide a schema file and instructions?
The few LAMP web applications I have installed require me to create the necessary database tables myself, with a schema file, instead of doing it automatically with a script or setup page. Is this a ...
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How do I create a web service with high amounts of traffic that works effectively with lots of different users? [closed]
I have created web services before that are used by a small number of users but have a new project that would have lots of users.
For each user that uses the services, this is what they would do:
1) ...
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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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Would Node.js be a practical solution for this project? [closed]
Never used Node.js before and want to learn it. I have to do a project that involves a front end retrieving data from a service out on the web and displaying it. My requirements are pretty open but ...
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Best practices for execution of untrusted code
I have a project where I need to allow users to run arbitrary, untrusted python code (a bit like this) against my server. I'm fairly new to python and I'd like to avoid making any mistakes that ...
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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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What endpoints should I provide, if any, to permit connectivity testing for my web services?
What endpoints should I provide, if any, to permit connectivity / availability testing for my web services / Web API?
TL;DR
I am developing both the server and client in an enterprise environment. ...
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How do I make a cloud based web app accessible internally in the event of an internet outage?
I have a Java Web application backed by a database. Both are hosted in Amazon EC2. If the Internet is down, I need to allow internal users to be able to continue to work and somehow update the hosted ...
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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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How cache works in ServiceStack web services
I am new to caching and trying to understand how it works in general. Below is code snippet from ServiceStack website.
public object Get(CachedCustomers request)
{
//Manually create the Unified ...
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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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What's the standard practice to prevent users from having unreasonable expectations?
There's some subscription-based data processing web service - users pay via PayPal for the right to use the service. The "terms of service" document prepared by lawyers explicitly says that there're ...
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How to optimize calls to multiple APIs at once and return as one set?
I have a web app that searches across 2 APIs right now. I have my own Restful web service that I call, and it does all the work on the backend to asynchronously call the 2 APIs and concatenate them ...
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How do I create a .NET WebService for File Upload [closed]
I need to create a web service using the .NET platform for accepting file uploads. What are the options available for doing this in C#?
What is the best approach to use? Can please you provide me with ...
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Should web service response use a base class or generic class?
In my RESTful WCF web service I have something like the following response object.
public class WebResponse<T>
{
public bool Success { get; set; }
public T Data { get; set; } ...
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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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One Service or Two Services for Parsing and Sending Emails
I have a bulk emailing service within the system which allows for a template to be used. When the mail is sent the template is parsed or run through a parser to replace tags with actual information. ...
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Will Authentication over HTTPS Slow My Application?
I am building a web application and RESTful web service.
I have been reading various articles about the best way to authenticate the requests to the web service.
The best option for me seems to be ...
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Difference between ISAPI and a web service [closed]
I have developed a web application with ASP.NET 2.0 , using ISAPI as the API to interface with the back-end database service and send data to the ASP page. This is overview in present
Web Site (asp ...
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Core data syncing (deletion) using a custom REST web service
I need to sync my local core data stack against a server running a persistent data storage underneath the covers. (I've gone through other posts here and on SO on similar topics)
My requirements:
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Is this “anti-pattern” and should I stop using it or is this clever design?
I've basically stared to do the following when creating a REST service:
HTML is requested
service returns the desired web page but without the requested "resource", eg. data
web page contains ...
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When are RPC-ish approaches more appropriate than REST?
After watching this talk on REST, Reuse and Serendipity by Steve Vinoski, I wonder if there are business cases in greenfield projects for (XML-)RPC-ish setups, that REST could not solve in a better ...
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Rails-API gem, Is there such thing as an API only application?
I've built a few API's using the complete rails stack. In each project there have been multiple uses for rails core features. Each of the API has had management screens for monitoring usage, managing ...
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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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Developing a php system that tracks other websites analytics [closed]
I want to develop a PHP website feature where users sign up, get a javascript snippet code that display an image on their site, and let's me track the number of visitors, unique hits, clicks and ...
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XMPP— openfire, PHP and python web service
I am planning to integrate real time notifications into a web application that I am currently working on. I have decided to go with XMPP for this and selected openfire server which I thought to be ...
