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This excerpt from Learning Flex 4 shows you how to work with external data services in Flex.Although the HTTPService component is a handy resource, you may require more dynamic alternatives from time ...
This excerpt from REST in Practice walks you through the fulfillment service of a coffee shop called Restbucks to show how AtomPub can be implemented in .NET. In this section, we show how Restbucks ...
Atom is an XML-based hypermedia format for representing timestamped lists of web content and metadata such as blog postings and news articles. The following excerpt from REST in Practice shows you how...
The following excerpt from REST in Practice describes how to build a RESTful service that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols. This particular example models the...
Chris Beckett posted this article on his SharePoint Bits blog recently. He explains how to add custom WCF services in SharePoint 2010.
Customizing WCF Services in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2007 pro...
Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...
Syndication is an essential tool for modern web apps. This excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook provides a quick overview of how to use the Atom entry and feed documents for...
A great explanation from Martin Kalin:
Although the term web service has various, imprecise, and evolving meanings, a glance at some features typical of web services will be enough to get us into cod...