Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
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Changed & Improved passing data from WebServlet to a WebService [migrated]
I'm pretty new to writing Servlet and REST Services, but now i'm at a problem that I'm not sure if i'm doing it correctly. My Service look like this:
@POST
@Produces ("application/json")
@Path ...
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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 do I return a C# web service that has a generic property? [migrated]
I am creating a web service, and want to be a bit more elegant with the return data, instead of having lots of properties that the consumer needs to check.
Depending on what data is generated behind ...
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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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Mobile app web service architecture [closed]
I'm a student working towards my degree in Mobile Application Development, and at this point I'm pretty fluent in Javascript, HTML5 and jquery.
I've been working on a javascript/html5/jquery web ...
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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:
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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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Brief and Precise book for webservices starters? [closed]
i am a java programmer. Though i did not get chance to work on webservices. . I am looking for some book on webservices which is short,precise and examples . On net there are various books which are ...
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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?
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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 ...
