As Craig already confessed, neither of us is a technical person. In other words, if an application breaks, we know whom to ask to fix it, which is a rather underrated skill if you ask me. Coding an XML file is about as technically demanding as my job gets, and with such obvious tags as <title>, <author>, and <table>, a computer science degree is hardly necessary to create a Web page. Ask us to create a Web service, however, and we may stare at you blankly, while we try to determine whom to ask.
All we know about Web services is that developers really like this technology, and for the most part, that's all we have to know. We've skimmed the Evans Data Web Services Development Survey (July 2006) and know a thing or two about how popular and widely used Web services are, which is enough for us to bring you articles on that topic, so here are the latest and greatest from our site:
- Practical Web Services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: What are Web services and why are they important?
- Practical Web services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: Writing and testing simple Web services
- Practical Web services in IBM Lotus Domino 7: Writing complex Web services
- Consuming Web services from a Lotus Domino Java agent
- Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Web Services
We have a few more articles about Web services in our Technical Library if you're interested. We also recommend these developerWorks resources:
- developerWorks tutorial, "Quickly create Domino Web services: New Web services function in Domino 7 speeds development"
- developerWorks tutorial, "Building Web Services using Lotus Domino 6.5.1"
- developerWorks SOA and Web services zone
For those of you in the US, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We'll be back next week after our break.
Tara Hall | 21 November 2006 12:30:00 PM ET | Westford, MA | Comments (0)
