Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
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Which Java framework meets these requirements?
Which Java framework meets these requirements?
What set of frameworks would be best suited to meet these requirements?
The requirements are:
oriented for web
support for transactions
support for ...
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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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Feeds to stay up to date in web development frameworks? [duplicate]
When you start a web development project you have to read a lot, really a lot, specially if you're a noob. As you develop you get outdated. In a 6 months time frame a lot will happen!
You cannot read ...
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Should MVC/REST return a 403 or 404 for resources belonging to other users?
When working with a resource-based site (such as an MVC application or REST service), we have two main options when a client tries to GET a resource that they don't have access to:
403, which says ...
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Advice for good web server development setup
A month or so ago I created my first LAMP stack and implemented a simple web site that exercised each letter in that acronym. However my development setup was much less than ideal.
I don't really ...
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Convincing a Client to Offer a RESTful Web Service instead of a SOAP Service?
BACKGROUND:
I develop custom WordPress plugins for my clients that they then distribute via the WordPress plugin repository. I'm increasingly running into clients who want my WordPress plugins to ...
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What are the deciding factors in choosing to expose a web service as a SOAP or REST service?
As far as I can see consuming SOAP requires a SOAP stack, so it is harder for your clients to consume i.e. they need to ensure that they have a SOAP stack in place that formats the POST data and the ...
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Maintaining referential integrity between a mobile client and a server
So I have a relatively simple system. A mobile client creates records in a sqlite database that I would like to have synced to a remote SQL server (that is shared with other mobile clients). So when I ...
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Starting Java Web Services and feeling lost
After building mainly Java desktop apps and some small GWT services, I'm trying to learn how to build Web Services in Java but I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of buzzwords, terms, ...
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Is SOA suitable for developers or only for business/IT management people?
Let's suppose you're the lead of a team of developers that needs to build a big information system such as an ERP or Human Resources software, or whatever system that is composed by multiple business ...
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Software architecture for authentication/access-control of REST web service
I am setting up a new RESTful web service and I need to provide a role-based access control model. I need to create an architecture that will allow users to provide their username and password to get ...
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What is “The Cloud”? What do I say when people ask if my web service is “on the cloud”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is “the Cloud” and how does it relate to development?
First some context: I don't understand what people are asking when they ask "It it on the cloud?" ...
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infrastructure software/technologies for developing web service
[Edit: Thanks S.Lott for the hints]
I'm developing a web service from scratch. The service could have potential of 10,000 requests a day. Actually, to be honest, requirements aren't that clear at this ...
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Does anyone have any experience with scene7 image server? [closed]
Scene7 is Adobe's image server. It seems like many people are using it.
We are considering using it. I want to know the developers experience. Was a pain to develop with or did it make things easier? ...
