Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
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API design: concrete vs. abstract approach - best practices?
When discussing APIs between systems (on the business level) there are often two different point of views in our team: some people prefer a more - lets say - generic abstract approach, other a ...
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Sleeping Web Server?
Are there any languages or even servers that instead of running a script on page load, (Apache/PHP, Ruby on Rails, ...) actually keep the code loaded and running forever, and when it receives a ...
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Is allowing voting without sign-in always a bad idea?
I have a mobile app from which I'd like to allow voting on Things. I don't want to force all the users to have to sign up using email/Facebook/etc. just so that I can properly limit voting.
Is it ...
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Building a strong robust client-server system
I need some help with regards to implement a pre-designed system that has 4 components and several constraints. I've spent approximately 50 hours trying to determine the best way to build this system; ...
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Advice needed on Process - Service Design
Need some advice from experts on designing a flow. Create a service that will read a csv file which may contain anywhere over 6000+ rows of individual ids as shown in the sample below.
Need to read ...
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Is Moving Entity Framework objects over a webservice really the best way?
I've inherited a .NET project that has close to 2 thousand clients out in the field that need to push data periodically up to a central repository. The clients wake up and attempt to push the data up ...
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Is a PHP file secure enough on a GoDaddy Server to hard code an AES salt into the file?
So I am creating a web api for an app I am making. The data is sanitized before it is sent to my web api and then encrypted before it is stored in my MySql server.
The phone app sanitizes then ...
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Do JAX WS implementation classes come as part of the Java 5/6 package or only as part of an application server libraries?
Do JAX WS implementation classes come as part of the Java5 package, as part of the Java6 package or only as part of an application server libraries like WAS?
I read that it comes as part of Java EE? ...
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How should I architect a RESTful webservice to use 3rd party (i.e. Google, Facebook, Twitter) for authentication?
For my job we have a nice RESTful webservice we've built out that we use to drive a couple websites we have. Basically the webservice lets you create and work with support tickets, and the website is ...
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Can a webservice that uses JSON over POST be classified as RESTful?
Recently I have started using a new(to me) paradigm for web services. I use the controller to accept JSON strings sent over POST, process it and return JSON strings. GET, PUT, DELETE and other methods ...
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Create Dynamic Web Apps with IBM Worklight [closed]
I'm developing a web app using IBM Worklight. The first step is done, which is coding the HTML, navigating between pages, and using basic AJAX/javascript.
I need to get the data from a database (a ...
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Best way to test a reimplemented web service
In my team, we are about to start the reimplement of a service. One of the important steps to do to accomplish this is how do we ensure that we are doing it in the right way and we are not ...
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Recommended to Override init() method in Servlets but not init(ServletConfig config)
I was going through some concepts in Servlets. Here the recommendation is that we can freely override init() than init(ServletConfig config).
One reason I see is becasuse it is inherited from the ...
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I want to build a java client library, where do I start? [closed]
I'm in my second java course at school and am thinking of developing a web service client library for one of my projects. I'd like the library to be able to query the MusicBrainz web service and have ...
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One web service multiple sites
I don't know whether this is even possible or I imagine (according to my habit of over thinking) will bring through numerous issues but let me give it a go.
I have an idea where I would like a single ...
