Another idea for an application for the Neo: Instant sync to web page duplicating info on phone
michael at michaelshiloh.com
michael at michaelshiloh.com
Thu Nov 30 01:54:09 CET 2006
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Tim Newsom wrote:
> Yeah. But more specifically I am defining the type of api as web services or
> web methods (they are the same thing usually).
>
> Basically, the web method is a standard used to define the remote method
> calls, their required parameters and types of acceptable data from within a
> program. Any program which can use web methods could use the same backend
> services. Its language neutral. Its also transport neutral. You can define
> encrypted channels to be used as the communication mechanism and regardless
> of which channel is used, the api does not get altered.
>
> Web services isolate the data transport mechanism from the application. I
> could draw up the architecture but its pretty simple.
>
> App --> calles web method from remote server and passes in data. The data
> gets stored..
> The reverse is also true if you want a fetch process to occur.
>
> Web services also define types of activity as synchronus and asynchronus...
> Synchronus would be like a normal web request where you specify the url,
> sometimes with parameters and get a page back immediately.
> Asynchronus is more like subscribe/notify.
> You tell the service you want something and when its available or changed,
> based on the implementation, the response is sent back to you.
>
> Its all bi-directional since any request can send some kind of data and
> properly implemented, there is no reason you could not share data between
> multiple neo's using the same interface.
>
> I hope that's a little clearer... Maybe other with web services background
> can help me explain the concept and maybe correct me if I stated anything in
> error.
> --Tim
Much clearer. Thanks for the explanation.
Michael
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