Uses of web services

What do web services actually do? One is for reusable application components. I�m sure that all of us, in one way or another, have used an application more than once. For example, since I transact business abroad, I often use currency converters to know how much money I need to deal with. My friend who�s learning Chinese turns to online translators when she needs a little help. Web services can offer application components that can be used over and over again. Web services also connect existing software by giving different applications a way to connect to their data despite using different applications and platforms.

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DHTML eliminates the boring elements of static pages without compromising performance and interactivity. It uses the user’s computer to calculate and make effective the changes so that the site does not have to make use of a distant server to load or even reload a document so that text and data do not have to go on a circuitous route that can consume time before it can carry-out the changes. DHTML are also self-contained so no additional support from applications or controls are needed.

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What you see above is an example of animated text.

It is one of the effects that can be achieved by using DHTML scripts on a script. There are also other effects that DHTML can achieve. One is enabling online forms on websites that can instantly respond to data input by user and then process immediately afterwards. Another is it can hide content for a given time. This is used in forum posts and blogs. It can also embed a ticker so that it can automatically refresh contents and other data.

Distributed Computing Technology

The Web Services platform represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies like remote procedure calls (RPC), ORPC (DCOM, Corba, Java RMI), messaging (MSMQ, MQSeries), and even modern Web applications (like Google.com). Because RPC was so difficult, developers layered object facades over the RPC mechanism to hide complexity.

This led to the many flavors of object-oriented remote procedure calls (ORPC). Of course, not all application communication can be modeled with RPC, so other messaging paradigms (like those provided by MSMQ) were necessary. Then, over the years, as developers struggled with interoperability between the various ORPC and messaging systems, they turned to the evolving Web as a potential solution for these challenges.

WSDL

A WSDL document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, the abstract definition of endpoints and messages is separated from their concrete network deployment or data format bindings. This allows the reuse of abstract definitions: messages, which are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and port types which are abstract collections of operations.

The concrete protocol and data format specifications for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding. A port is defined by associating a network address with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports define a service. In addition, WSDL defines a common binding mechanism. This is used to attach a specific protocol or data format or structure to an abstract message, operation, or endpoint. It allows the reuse of abstract definitions.

Web Services for your Phone

As far as offering services for online users, expect mobile applications and programs to grow in the coming years as mobile computing and access have evidently become a notable uprising thanks to the latest gadgets that allow people to access the web anywhere with their gadgets.

With that in mind, service providers who make a living on the web are sure to grab this opportunity and make studies on what people would really look for. Aside from the usual information they need, emails, social communities and podcasts are surely among the top preferences we know of today.

The New Age of Online Banking

When it comes to paying off your bills and monthly expenses, online banking has certainly made life easier. Most banks today have embraced the gifts of technology and we can see that with online access normally on their websites.

So when you want to make money transfers and bills payments in a hurry, you don’t have to go out and get to the nearest bank to do so. Simply register with your bank and do all your transactions online. It is surely lesser of a problem especially when you want to beat deadline of payments today.

Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!

HunchOne of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’

Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!

So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’

Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons

The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’



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