On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM, John Weller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could anyone give a SIMPLE idea of what web services are? I've followed > this thread with interest and a complete lack of understanding :-) > ------------------- A web service is presenting internal functionality to clients via a web protocol. I present a list of trucks in route to a customer. They supply a UID/PW in the request object to me and because of the function I will return a collection of data that is a collection of collections. Header will be Their PO, our Invoice, BOL#, # of pallets First collection will be the pack on the truck by item # Each Item has a collection of Lot quality metrics. My customers have to evaluate the test data to verify if they will accept the truck. I work with plastic bottles for the food industry and there are a lot of rules surrounding lot tracking these days. HTH -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmyll8l4+3sxfyzocwxm7tivepexsf+djfbakktmmfwo...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
