I’ve been reading about “web services” here on SO, on Wikipedia, Google, etc., and I don’t quite understand what they are. What is the plain English definition/description? If I make a simple website using PHP that just, say, prints a random integer to the page… is this a “web service”? If not, why not? 21 … Read more
I have a web service that accepts JSON parameters and have specific URLs for methods, e.g.: http://IP:PORT/API/getAllData?p={JSON} This is definitely not REST as it is not stateless. It takes cookies into account and has its own session. Is it RPC? What is the difference between RPC and REST? 10 Answers 10
What is the difference between OData and REST-ful web services? 8 Answers 8
What is the difference between an XML Schema and WSDL? The difference I noticed is that WSDL contains XSD and in WSDL we can declare operations, but not in XSD. Is that correct? 8 Answers 8
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What does P99 latency represent? I keep hearing about this in discussions about an application’s performance but couldn’t find a resource online that would talk about this. 4 Answers 4
I’m building a REST API, but I’ve encountered a problem. It seems that accepted practice in designing a REST API is that if the resource requested doesn’t exist, a 404 is returned. However, to me, this adds unnecessary ambiguity. HTTP 404 is more traditionally associated with a bad URI. So in effect we’re saying “Either … Read more
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I have a REST web service that currently exposes this URL: http://server/data/media where users can POST the following JSON: { “Name”: “Test”, “Latitude”: 12.59817, “Longitude”: 52.12873 } in order to create a new Media metadata. Now I need the ability to upload a file at the same time as the media metadata. What’s the best … Read more
Let’s say my web service is located at http://localhost:8080/foo/mywebservice and my WSDL is at http://localhost:8080/foo/mywebservice?wsdl. Is http://localhost:8080/foo/mywebservice an endpoint, i.e., is it the same as the URI of my web service or where the SOAP messages received and unmarshalled? Could you please explain to me what it is and what the purpose of it is? … Read more
