REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a web service architecture that focuses on the system resources. Each resource is identified by a URI (Unified Resource Identifier). Accessing the resources is done using HTTP. The server reply is the representation of the resource we try to access. This representation is usually an XML document. JSR 311 specifies Java API for [...]
Since the emergence of PHP 5.2, the JSON extension is already compiled into the PHP execution environment. We can use it out of the box without any specific configuration. The json_encode function receives an array in PHP and encode it into JSON format. The following video clip shows that. The json_decode function receives a string [...]
PHP supports a wide range of web services types, including REStful Web Services, WDDX Web Services and SOAP Web Services. The following video clip shows how simple it is to consume a SOAP web service in PHP.
The google apps marketplace allows companies that already use the google apps service to acquire the usage of online services such as CRM systems and others. In most cases, the online services are well integrated with google apps well known collaborative tools, such as calendar, docs and gmail.
This semester (Spring 2011) I am going to deliver in Tel-Hai college a course that covers advance topics in the Java EE platform. This course is delivered as part of Tel-Hai Computers Science BSc academic program. The main topics we are going to cover in this course are: Java Persistence API 2 (JPA 2) Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) [...]
The data collected from each check-in users perform when using the Facebook Places service is collected and is now accessible through the Facebook Graph API. Each single check-in is represented using a single object with its own ID number. The Facebook Graph API allows us to get social data represented using objects connected with each [...]
Google Maps API allows us to develop applications that use data retrieved from google servers such as street views, routes, satellite views, traffic data and others. You can use this data within apps you develop for various platforms including platforms for mobile telephones. Recently, google has released the Google Maps Navigation app for the android [...]
I am glad to announce about “Java SE Core Web Services” new course available for free at www.abelski.com. The Extensible Markup Language (XML), a subset of SGML, was originally formed to enable generic SGML to be served, received and processed on the web (as HTML). XML is the natural choice for B2B connectivity. This course focuses on [...]
Using Yahoo! Connected TV Platform you can develop small TV widgets supported by millions of TV users in North America, Asia and Europe. The Yahoo! Widget Engine platform is available in a variety of consumer electronic devices, including flat panel TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG. Many others coming soon! The widgets are developed in [...]
I have recently found that many people (including software developers) don’t know the exact steps involved with setting up a new web site. I chose to summarize these steps in this technical oriented post. The following are the main steps involved with setting up a new web site. Available Domain Name The first step should be [...]
