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
Is there an easy way (aka: not using a proxy) to get access to the raw request/response XML for a webservice published with JAX-WS reference implementation (the one included in JDK 1.5 and better) ? Being able to do that via code is what I need to do. Just having it logged to a file … Read more
What is the difference between OData and REST-ful web services? 8 Answers 8
I have a web service I am trying to unit test. In the service it pulls several values from the HttpContext like so: m_password = (string)HttpContext.Current.Session[“CustomerId”]; m_userID = (string)HttpContext.Current.Session[“CustomerUrl”]; in the unit test I am creating the context using a simple worker request, like so: SimpleWorkerRequest request = new SimpleWorkerRequest(“”, “”, “”, null, new StringWriter()); … Read more
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
I am working on the integration of an Amazon Webstore (Amazon Checkout) on a WordPress site using Amazon Documentation here. Has been a while since I worked with enqueueing external JScripts. I need to load two scripts from Amazon. I added some code to functions.php, but I seem to have made a mistake and I … Read more
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I’m planning to develop an app for the iPhone and that app would have to access a couple of SOAP services. While doing some basic checking in the iPhone SDK I was not able to find any support for accessing SOAP services, a bit of Googling lead to the conclusion that there is no support … Read more
I want to use this service OnWebChange to monitor when a website changes and change mine accordingly. It would notify me via a URL callback to my website URL with a HTTP POST method. What tools/API/plugins do I use to “catch” those POST’s? Have searched a lot and found only how to make POST, but … Read more