Web Services

Friday, March 14, 2008

SOA - a service oriented architecture which is an evolution of distributed computing. An applications functions are modularized and are presented as services to other applications.
XML-RPC - is a remote procedure call protocol which uses xml to encode its calls via http
SOAP - single object access protocol which is a protocol for exchanging xml based messages over networks mostly http and https
wddx - web distributed data exchange is a programming language, platform, and transport neutral data interchange mechanism.
RPC - is a technology that allows a program to run a program on another computer without the program explicitly writing the details of the interaction.
RPCGEN - creates stubs based on definitions specified with IDL
IDL - interface description language is a specification language which describes an interface an allows different software components to talk in a language independent way.
WSDL - web service description language. based IDL. that describes webservices
Tunneling Protocol - when a payload protocol is delivered inside a different delivery protocol
OSI - a network standardization that was preceded by TCP/IP
Ethernet - the most widely used wired LAN technology standardized as IEEE 802.3 and based on wire and signaling standards for the physical layer.
MAC - data communication protocol sub layer
UDDI - universal description discovery and integration an xml based registry for companies world wide to list themseleves on the internet
jaxb - java architecture for xml binding makes xml out of objects and the inverse

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