On 5/24/13 8:28 AM, John Weller 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 simply an HTTP Server that responds to requests from other machines, exactly like a web server does for the browser, but instead of returning HTML, it returns a data structure ideally optimized for transit and parsability. All interaction is over HTTP, using HTTP's well-defined ways of sending parameters (query string, key/value argument encoding in the header) and ideally harnessing all appropriate http request methods like GET, POST, DELETE, etc. They are supposed to be easy to understand and simple to implement. Which is why SOAP is such a failure. Paul _______________________________________________ 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/[email protected] ** 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.
