Archive for the 'Info' Category
February 10th, 2010 by Grace
I remember how excited and at awe I was when I first had internet connection installed to my PC. Of course, it was still dial-up and was prone to a lot of disconnection (not to mention long downloading time). That was only years ago but major IT development later, many people, companies, and institutions now have broadband connection. It has almost become indispensable. Here enters the importance of interoperability so web applications are developed so that different platforms can interact and work together. By using web services to applications, its function can then be published to practically anywhere in the world.
January 10th, 2010 by Grace
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.
December 29th, 2009 by Grace
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.
November 20th, 2009 by Grace
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.
October 20th, 2009 by Grace
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.
September 25th, 2009 by Grace
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.
August 17th, 2009 by Yalung
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.
March 16th, 2009 by Grace
People and businesses are still not aware that the naming conventions that have been used for so long on the internet are to freed up, liberalized forever and taken out of the hands of any one body the world over. These naming conventions used to be developed and designated by the ICANN and other internet management groups yet moves to take this out of the control of any group or body has resulted in the planned de-regulation of naming conventions. Google can now have specific marketing websites such as “search.Google” or say “Images.Google”. This move would give businesses more room to expand on their use of the internet, say a University having a web site for students named “Students.University”. Continue reading ‘Web Domain Liberalization – Not Many Know’
August 22nd, 2008 by Grace
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Many people are wondering what is Social Bookmarking all about and how did it became such a popular trend with the Internet users nowadays? Through filing a site in your bookmark list, anyone searching for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the junk.
One of the cool features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you anywhere you go and not just on your own computer. With Social Bookmarking, there are many diverse types of online communities that you can link and most will help you get an assured amount of traffic on your site. Social bookmarking is a way of presenting what interests you share with the rest of Internet world.
Through organizing your bookmarks online; you can aid yourself in getting organized or getting your contents exposed so that it will also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users – and each user has an individual page with their own tags. A social bookmarking site also assists you to meet those other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have the extended knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.
June 1st, 2008 by Grace
Web services are XML-based application components that communicate using open protocols. These application components are also self-contained and self-describing. The basic Web services platform is XML and HTTP. Perhaps HTTP is more familiar since it is the mostly used internet protocol. XML on the other hands provides a language that can be utilized between different platforms and programming languages. What is cool about a web services platform is that it is quite a simple and interoperable messaging framework. It’s not perfect though, as it still has missing components such as security and routing which are now being worked on.
